what does Oracle use for storage? that depends. when running RAC (Real Application Clusters), we cheaped it out and used OCFS (Oracle Clustered File System), which was pretty close to just using raw devices and writing to them. typically a database doesn't need much more than a wrapper around storage, everything is stored in a proprietary/binary way anyways. a file system is just overhead or the middleman at that point.
.net and mono are functionally equivalent to a SWIG wrapper - a bit easier to deal with, but similar nonetheless.
this is a bit different. for one, it allows you to redefine how an API is implemented. imagine a generic database API. instead of programming to a client library, all software can be written to a single standard API that then has its guts replaced with a simple call to be database specific. need to move from mysql to postgres and have 30-40 different maintenance programs and scripts that are programmed to deal with the API? simple, replace the guts of the API with the postgres API, and you're back in business. no need to write wrappers or even recompile.
i drop my poor iphone all of the time. it has a ton of scratches and marks all over it. it still functions just as well, and has continually been a workhorse.
i've only had one problem, and that's lockup at a pub i visit often. unfortunately, every iphone user locks up there as well.
that's interesting and all, but locally, i remember paying $1 for 12 ears of sweet corn to cook. last year, it was about $1/ear - that's 100% increase in about 3 years. what's going on with my local farms? are they not subsidized?
except that many hops farmers have switched from farming hops on their premium farm land, to farming inefficient corn, thus driving up the price of beer.
it's hard for something to be "free, as in beer" when a bottle of beer is very expensive to make due to a hops shortage.
so a lot of people must be turning off the automatic spell checking?
i know that i have much fewer typos when using my iphone, unfortunately it also means that many of my words and acronyms are replaced by some other unrelated word.
my words look ok, but my sentences don't make any sensual.
it seems that when a new somewhat violent game comes out, jack thompson attempts legal recourse that is usually bound to fail and the game gets a whole lot more publicity.
did jack find his calling? a few bucks sent his way, best marketing money can buy.
the leakage from that feeder was so low as to be almost undetectable beyond a few tens of yards
i'm not sure what it's like where you're from, but around here, power lines are tens of yards from each other. from a single line, it's probably no big deal, but when the lines criss-cross like a giant arial antenna, everywhere you look, then you start to have bigger issues.
perhaps it's not such a bad idea, but better saved until all of the utilities are under ground.
it's nonstandard, but it is a word. it entered common usage in the early 20th century, and has been accepted in most dictionaries since a little past 1927.
Having the source on a webserver doesn't comply with the GPL
huh. you must have read an entirely different GPL than i did. here's an excerpt from the preamble of the GPL:
if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code.
sounds a bit to me like, if i download a copy of the Linux kernel, i must transfer those same rights on to my user, that they must be able to download a copy of the kernel, either from me, or from where i got it.
and from the legal part of the license:
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange;
hm. sounds to me like including a web-site address, along with the GPL license in the rest of your legal license statements (you do buy stuff from stores, and not on the grey/black market, correct?) would fulfill the license agreement nicely.
My phone (Danger Hiptop) can recieve automatic over-the-air updates (it has already recieved two), but it is still secure as it only accepts signed code.
and the Microsoft XBox only accepts signed executables as well. too bad that some application saved-game code allowed full bypass of this.
the point is, even with DRM, there are going to be holes that can be exploited, whether it accepts only signed code or not.
while some user called yamia keeps making claims that the xbox2 will not be backward compatible, i have to ask why not?
it's certainly possible, and i'm not talking emulation. last i heard, ibm had some broad cross licensing agreements with intel, and only got out of the x86 hardware business because it wasn't profitable anymore.
what happens if ibm is asked to use their dual core fabrication techniques to embed some sort of x86 processor next to that g5? it starts to sound like a ps2, doesn't it?
besides, the 700mhz celeron equivalent has dropped so much in price, it could probably be included like the ps1 processor in the ps2, at very little cost, even if it wasn't on the same dye as the chip. it would make one heck of a secondary processor, same as how the ps1 chip is used in the ps2.
microsoft isn't stupid, they've seen the headstart that sony got with the ps2, and they'd be insane to not cover every base to get ahead in the market.
they're ruthless, they're aggressive, they lie, they cheat, they steal, but they're not stupid, and it's best that nobody forget that.
i used to live in goose hollow, mz katz seemed to have a vendetta against goose hollow -- elimination of a psu parking lot for a psu housing building, to be replaced with yet more psu housing == no parking for those that live in the neighborhood -- then came the low income housing -- we moved.
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afraid of being tracked? don't carry your cellphone.
it's much easier to make a personal change than to have a whole infrastructure shut down.
What does the DB2 engine use for storage.
what does Oracle use for storage? that depends. when running RAC (Real Application Clusters), we cheaped it out and used OCFS (Oracle Clustered File System), which was pretty close to just using raw devices and writing to them. typically a database doesn't need much more than a wrapper around storage, everything is stored in a proprietary/binary way anyways. a file system is just overhead or the middleman at that point.
.net and mono are functionally equivalent to a SWIG wrapper - a bit easier to deal with, but similar nonetheless.
this is a bit different. for one, it allows you to redefine how an API is implemented. imagine a generic database API. instead of programming to a client library, all software can be written to a single standard API that then has its guts replaced with a simple call to be database specific. need to move from mysql to postgres and have 30-40 different maintenance programs and scripts that are programmed to deal with the API? simple, replace the guts of the API with the postgres API, and you're back in business. no need to write wrappers or even recompile.
i drop my poor iphone all of the time. it has a ton of scratches and marks all over it. it still functions just as well, and has continually been a workhorse.
i've only had one problem, and that's lockup at a pub i visit often. unfortunately, every iphone user locks up there as well.
not only that, but in my car, e10 (10% ethanol) requires 20% more gasoline (at 10% ethanol) to run!
engines tuned to ethanol require much less, but whose engine is tuned to ethanol? i drive a 2007 car!
that's interesting and all, but locally, i remember paying $1 for 12 ears of sweet corn to cook. last year, it was about $1/ear - that's 100% increase in about 3 years. what's going on with my local farms? are they not subsidized?
who said anything about mass brewing? i'm from portland! i only consider micros as beer :)
except that many hops farmers have switched from farming hops on their premium farm land, to farming inefficient corn, thus driving up the price of beer.
it's hard for something to be "free, as in beer" when a bottle of beer is very expensive to make due to a hops shortage.
it never makes sense to burn our food.
so a lot of people must be turning off the automatic spell checking?
i know that i have much fewer typos when using my iphone, unfortunately it also means that many of my words and acronyms are replaced by some other unrelated word.
my words look ok, but my sentences don't make any sensual.
it seems that when a new somewhat violent game comes out, jack thompson attempts legal recourse that is usually bound to fail and the game gets a whole lot more publicity.
did jack find his calling? a few bucks sent his way, best marketing money can buy.
perhaps the scientists that voted for this had only seen the "love conquers all" version :)
You mean the computers all update themselves automatically from a central server, or is it something else?
have you checked out Ximian's RedCarpet?
the leakage from that feeder was so low as to be almost undetectable beyond a few tens of yards
i'm not sure what it's like where you're from, but around here, power lines are tens of yards from each other. from a single line, it's probably no big deal, but when the lines criss-cross like a giant arial antenna, everywhere you look, then you start to have bigger issues.
perhaps it's not such a bad idea, but better saved until all of the utilities are under ground.
routable or not, /32 is a single ip address.
192.168.1.23/32 is still an ip address.
a /32 block is a single machine.
it's nonstandard, but it is a word. it entered common usage in the early 20th century, and has been accepted in most dictionaries since a little past 1927.
irregardless is synonymous with regardless.
or even a "publish" button, that strips out the meta-data, and optimizes the doc file.
but that would make sense.
less funny than you think. lego just changed some of their colors -- to much outcry from adult fans.
huh. you must have read an entirely different GPL than i did. here's an excerpt from the preamble of the GPL:
sounds a bit to me like, if i download a copy of the Linux kernel, i must transfer those same rights on to my user, that they must be able to download a copy of the kernel, either from me, or from where i got it.
and from the legal part of the license:
hm. sounds to me like including a web-site address, along with the GPL license in the rest of your legal license statements (you do buy stuff from stores, and not on the grey/black market, correct?) would fulfill the license agreement nicely.
My phone (Danger Hiptop) can recieve automatic over-the-air updates (it has already recieved two), but it is still secure as it only accepts signed code.
and the Microsoft XBox only accepts signed executables as well. too bad that some application saved-game code allowed full bypass of this.
the point is, even with DRM, there are going to be holes that can be exploited, whether it accepts only signed code or not.
besides, the more products you make, the more the economy of scale is on your side.
example:
you ship 300 products, all based on CE. you have your licensing cost, let's say $20/copy, bringing your total tax up to $6000.
you ship 3000 products, all based on CE. you get a price break, so let's say $10/copy. total tax, $30000.
you ship 300 products, all based on a GPL'd product. your cost is a web server with source, let's say $100-500/month.
you ship 3000 products, all based on a GPL'd product, your costs stays the same at $100-500/month.
it's silly that some manufacturers don't seem to include the hosting fee as their product licensing cost.
perhaps it's time to mount an awareness campaign.
the motorola 680x0 were 32bit chips. they had an external 16bit interface, but were 32bit inside.
think 386sx, but designed in 1979.
while some user called yamia keeps making claims that the xbox2 will not be backward compatible, i have to ask why not?
it's certainly possible, and i'm not talking emulation. last i heard, ibm had some broad cross licensing agreements with intel, and only got out of the x86 hardware business because it wasn't profitable anymore.
what happens if ibm is asked to use their dual core fabrication techniques to embed some sort of x86 processor next to that g5? it starts to sound like a ps2, doesn't it?
besides, the 700mhz celeron equivalent has dropped so much in price, it could probably be included like the ps1 processor in the ps2, at very little cost, even if it wasn't on the same dye as the chip. it would make one heck of a secondary processor, same as how the ps1 chip is used in the ps2.
microsoft isn't stupid, they've seen the headstart that sony got with the ps2, and they'd be insane to not cover every base to get ahead in the market.
they're ruthless, they're aggressive, they lie, they cheat, they steal, but they're not stupid, and it's best that nobody forget that.
makes me really miss bud clark :(
i used to live in goose hollow, mz katz seemed to have a vendetta against goose hollow -- elimination of a psu parking lot for a psu housing building, to be replaced with yet more psu housing == no parking for those that live in the neighborhood -- then came the low income housing -- we moved.
the reservoirs around here (portland, oregon) are all man-made, cement holes. :)