Nice. Are you doing any kind of replication? How about partitioning? If so did you do it in house or hire somebody to help out with that. I haven't worked with Postgres in about 4 years - so I've lost touch just a bit with what's been happening there.
And are the apps using that back-end all custom or is there commercial stuff that can use Postgres? I'm especially interested in that on the warehouse side.
I'm an oracle dba - 10g RAC on AIX. I also look after SQL Server and MySQL databases. I run Linux at home and work. My machines at home I built myself. I love Star Trek, Star Wars and grew up on Sci-Fi and Fantasy books. I write code for fun. I was vice president of the RPG club at my highschool one year. I would have been president but the other guy out rolled me for it. I have a couple blogs but slashdot is my primary hangout on the web. I have never, ever been a 'marketing type'. And I may not meet your standard of 'geek' but I think I am one.
Those words are true. When you start working in an environment a little more complicated than 3 old pc's in your mom's basement - what people often perceive to be database problems can be networking problems. When all your data is on a san - when you are backing up to a VLT and you have 5 instances in your production RAC cluster - networking matters. So I am always looking to learn more.
At the same time - the gui tools for working with ip tables on Fedora are not where I would like them to be. This book really helped me to get a better grasp on how to understand and work from bash rather than getting frustrated. This is useful for me at home and work - as I'd rather not just say "Hey, I'm behind a network firewall already, I'll just turn the local one off so I can work".
Maybe your just a troll that got modded up - but I just wanted to make sure and set the record straight on this. I didn't see this go to the front page yesterday because I was walking around downtown Budapest. I'm here as tech support for a conference. I'm in Hungary for the first time, so any downtime I've had I've been sight seeing. It's a bit outside my normal work - more desktop support oriented. But since I'm a geek and not a marketing guy, I'm holding my own. Having read that book has already been valuable to me here as well.
when you say 'prevented anything' i assume you mean 'anything of consequence' because this would have prevented the hijackers from holding multiple drivers licenses from multiple states. i don't think it would have had an impact on the outcome - but just saying, that would have been different.
he's not talking. but while you are here, let me just say that i love you guys. the football, the literature, the sitcoms. you all have done some great stuff. i know - there's lots more but that's what i see most often.
and you may gloat in your gmt, me being stuck in gmt -5 right now. but next week i'll be in gmt +1. we'll see who is who then, wont we?
correct me if I'm wrong- but amazon only sells drm free tracks - and itunes sells a few drm free tracks. i don't think anyone is arguing over who did it first.
Maybe that's why I don't get it. The environment I'm working in isn't large enough to have a lot of stuff just sitting around. I wish we did, but most of our stuff is going all the time. It'd be nice to have more redundancy but we just can't afford it.
We are using virtualization on some things - but mostly little stuff. I work with our primary production databases and we don't share those boxes. We are getting all we can out of them on our own. But I'm a dba - so in my opinion I never have enough resources.
I read the blog post and the pdf he linked that describes what he means by datacenter - but I don't get it. Where is all their stuff going to run from? Is he talking about just using some other companies data center, or is this some kind of distributed thing where it is all spread out over smaller pieces? He mentions storage- well isn't a room with racks full of disks a data center?
I'm missing something here, so maybe somebody could make this more clear.
That upgrade is on hold. The problems that knocked the latest Atlantis mission back into February have jacked up the schedule. So it was planned for August but now it will be later. I would think that with eol for the shuttle and hubble both rapidly approaching - any more problems or serious delays and it could get knocked from on hold to canceled.
i've got bad news - the only people excited about this are geeks. this is the very definition of geek news. Go search cnn for any articles about $200 pcs. i couldn't find one.
tfa says, "With $200 machines being all the rage these days,". they are 'all the rage' within the geek community. one system has had a lot of attention outside the usual circles - that was because wal-mart sold it. this new system by shuttle isn't a big deal to anyone but us - and as i mentioned, it has received plenty of press in our circles. especially when you consider the fact that until just yesterday there was not a shred of substantial information out about the system.
to top it off - i don't even know just what 'all the rage' means other than generating lots of discussion. the only low priced linux offering that i've seen generating lots of sales has been the asus eee pc - which is $399. (couldn't find an article about it at cnn thought - it's all over the tech sites though.)
As recently as a couple days ago I couldn't find a single source of information on this system beyond a picture and price point. TFA is dated yesterday. But even with that being the case I've seen this system on digg and reddit. So I'm not sure how more coverage could be possible.
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I'm a bit late with this - but just in case you check back - you might want to look at the Linux Networking Cookbook just out by O'Reilly. It has a much wider scope than just firewalls but does cover iptables and such. It's very hands on.
Car Wars would have been perfect for Live and PSN as well, and seeing Cyberpunk, Ogre or Illuminati would be great as well.
Man, that list brings back some really great memories. Like the year we rolled for who would be president of the rpg club at school because the vote was a tie. I was really into Car Wars - and spent weeks building a campaign based around gurps with maps of our home town, school and stuff like that. It was a lot of fun.
It would be really cool to have software to do something like that. Import maps, stats, scenarios, etc. Then be able to put it all together. Another project I'll probably never have time to do but that will be bouncing around in my brain.
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Nice. Are you doing any kind of replication? How about partitioning? If so did you do it in house or hire somebody to help out with that. I haven't worked with Postgres in about 4 years - so I've lost touch just a bit with what's been happening there.
And are the apps using that back-end all custom or is there commercial stuff that can use Postgres? I'm especially interested in that on the warehouse side.
Yes - and the book covers how to create your own.
i'd rtfa but that page is taking forever to load.
I'm an oracle dba - 10g RAC on AIX. I also look after SQL Server and MySQL databases. I run Linux at home and work. My machines at home I built myself. I love Star Trek, Star Wars and grew up on Sci-Fi and Fantasy books. I write code for fun. I was vice president of the RPG club at my highschool one year. I would have been president but the other guy out rolled me for it. I have a couple blogs but slashdot is my primary hangout on the web. I have never, ever been a 'marketing type'. And I may not meet your standard of 'geek' but I think I am one.
Those words are true. When you start working in an environment a little more complicated than 3 old pc's in your mom's basement - what people often perceive to be database problems can be networking problems. When all your data is on a san - when you are backing up to a VLT and you have 5 instances in your production RAC cluster - networking matters. So I am always looking to learn more.
At the same time - the gui tools for working with ip tables on Fedora are not where I would like them to be. This book really helped me to get a better grasp on how to understand and work from bash rather than getting frustrated. This is useful for me at home and work - as I'd rather not just say "Hey, I'm behind a network firewall already, I'll just turn the local one off so I can work".
Maybe your just a troll that got modded up - but I just wanted to make sure and set the record straight on this. I didn't see this go to the front page yesterday because I was walking around downtown Budapest. I'm here as tech support for a conference. I'm in Hungary for the first time, so any downtime I've had I've been sight seeing. It's a bit outside my normal work - more desktop support oriented. But since I'm a geek and not a marketing guy, I'm holding my own. Having read that book has already been valuable to me here as well.
I've been traveling the last 2 days and was without internet.
Anyhow- just wanted to say that I thought that was hilarious.
there was a rumor going around florida might lose their fark tag.
It has yet to be shown that the scheme being discussed could prevent the same exploit.
that's pretty much what I said. Thanks for backing me up on that.
when you say 'prevented anything' i assume you mean 'anything of consequence' because this would have prevented the hijackers from holding multiple drivers licenses from multiple states. i don't think it would have had an impact on the outcome - but just saying, that would have been different.
he's not talking. but while you are here, let me just say that i love you guys. the football, the literature, the sitcoms. you all have done some great stuff. i know - there's lots more but that's what i see most often.
and you may gloat in your gmt, me being stuck in gmt -5 right now. but next week i'll be in gmt +1. we'll see who is who then, wont we?
correct me if I'm wrong- but amazon only sells drm free tracks - and itunes sells a few drm free tracks. i don't think anyone is arguing over who did it first.
i think we might be the only ones here right now. why don't we talk this over? i really think we still have a chance.
well - it didn't.
i don't know. i checked and he's got a pretty low user id.
how can he not have been here yet? i'm not waiting forever.
Maybe that's why I don't get it. The environment I'm working in isn't large enough to have a lot of stuff just sitting around. I wish we did, but most of our stuff is going all the time. It'd be nice to have more redundancy but we just can't afford it.
We are using virtualization on some things - but mostly little stuff. I work with our primary production databases and we don't share those boxes. We are getting all we can out of them on our own. But I'm a dba - so in my opinion I never have enough resources.
and google keeps building giant data centers. i know you are joking - but this seems like just shuffling the deck.
I read the blog post and the pdf he linked that describes what he means by datacenter - but I don't get it. Where is all their stuff going to run from? Is he talking about just using some other companies data center, or is this some kind of distributed thing where it is all spread out over smaller pieces? He mentions storage- well isn't a room with racks full of disks a data center?
I'm missing something here, so maybe somebody could make this more clear.
That upgrade is on hold. The problems that knocked the latest Atlantis mission back into February have jacked up the schedule. So it was planned for August but now it will be later. I would think that with eol for the shuttle and hubble both rapidly approaching - any more problems or serious delays and it could get knocked from on hold to canceled.
i've got bad news - the only people excited about this are geeks. this is the very definition of geek news. Go search cnn for any articles about $200 pcs. i couldn't find one.
tfa says, "With $200 machines being all the rage these days,". they are 'all the rage' within the geek community. one system has had a lot of attention outside the usual circles - that was because wal-mart sold it. this new system by shuttle isn't a big deal to anyone but us - and as i mentioned, it has received plenty of press in our circles. especially when you consider the fact that until just yesterday there was not a shred of substantial information out about the system.
When I wrote up a journal entry about it tuesday there were still no system specs to be had. just a picture and the $199 price.
to top it off - i don't even know just what 'all the rage' means other than generating lots of discussion. the only low priced linux offering that i've seen generating lots of sales has been the asus eee pc - which is $399. (couldn't find an article about it at cnn thought - it's all over the tech sites though.)
As recently as a couple days ago I couldn't find a single source of information on this system beyond a picture and price point. TFA is dated yesterday. But even with that being the case I've seen this system on digg and reddit. So I'm not sure how more coverage could be possible.
I'm a bit late with this - but just in case you check back - you might want to look at the Linux Networking Cookbook just out by O'Reilly. It has a much wider scope than just firewalls but does cover iptables and such. It's very hands on.
You are probably right. But should I find myself independently wealthy and with a lot of time on my hands, I'll be writing it.
Car Wars would have been perfect for Live and PSN as well, and seeing Cyberpunk, Ogre or Illuminati would be great as well.
Man, that list brings back some really great memories. Like the year we rolled for who would be president of the rpg club at school because the vote was a tie. I was really into Car Wars - and spent weeks building a campaign based around gurps with maps of our home town, school and stuff like that. It was a lot of fun.
It would be really cool to have software to do something like that. Import maps, stats, scenarios, etc. Then be able to put it all together. Another project I'll probably never have time to do but that will be bouncing around in my brain.
if they form this rumored label with jay-z will they get sued by the beatles again? this is what i'm wondering.
Freedom! In a box! What a wonderful company!