Most people are using SQL engines just to store basic records, that sometimes even don't need any sort of indexation.
SQL engines are slow and unreliable. Almost everytime I see a web site down (even Freshmeat) it's due to a database crash. SQL is a brain damaged query language. SQL tables have an horrible obsolete Cobol-like structure (every record must have a fixed len to be handled efficiently, types are fixed, etc) .
Sure, they can be useful for something.
But for 99% of the projects they are used for, they could be easily replaced with a simple indexing library like CDB, GDBM or BerkeleyDB (BDB itself is very powerful, it has a lot of nifty features, plus it's rock solid and damn fast) .
Or even flat files. I've seen so many people using complex SQL tables just to store 50 poor records. Just crazy. Do people know that filesystems can store data, too ? Does Squid need Oracle to store the cache ?
I never used SQL (although I coded large search engines and other stuff that stores and index a lot of data) . And I don't want to. BerkeleyDB achieve the same thing on a 386 than *SQL on a Thunderbird.
Sourceforge is a marvellous thing for developpers and it helps a lot the free software community.
However, Sourceforge is very buggy. Sometimes the CVS server refuses authentication. Sometimes, uploading new releases is impossible. Sometimes, I have to authenticate dozens of time. And it doesn't like Opera.
Maybe VA should fix Sourceforge before selling it.
If you want an open and portable equivalent of Direct X (not only Direct 3D), go for SDL.
SDL supports 2D graphics, but also 3D (through OpenGL wrappers), CD-Rom operations, sound, network, load/save of bitmap formats, joystick, etc. And it can renders on windows, X11, svgalib, GGI, AA, BeOS, etc.
SDL is very easy to program, and everything is designed in a very consistent way.
I had to set up a server running SCO Unix for a large web site. It was years ago, in the Linux 1.2 days.
SCO was a pain to install, there was even no driver for our classical adaptec adapter. We had to call the support and wait during one week to have a fucking floppy disk with the driver.
Then, compiling anything on the box (like the first release of the "Apache" server) was a pain. A lot of libraries like 'crypt' were missing. I had to tweak the source code a lot, port external libraries, etc. to have something that worked on SCO.
And the kernel crashed. I rebooted, and a lot of files were corrupted, including almost everything in the/etc directory. I had to reinstall everything from scratch. One day of uptime, wow.
It finally worked, I just had to import the existing web pages and images from a DAT tape. Guess what ? Only 2 Gb tapes were supported by SCO, and the support center was unable to help.
I ended up wiping the hard disk, and installed Linux. Everything worked perfectly, and what took me an entiere week of work with SCO was redone in 3 hours with Linux.
SCO has probably improved since, but I don't trust that operating system any more. It was dog slow, it was a hell to compile anything on it, the default shell was an horror, it didn't support common hardware...
If you don't like the Linux kernel, watch out for Debian/OpenBSD instead.
Blame Microsoft for having released software with huge security flaws.
Full disclosure is definitely a good thing. Not only it pressures software vendors to release a patch, but it also help other programmers to understand good programming practices.
And *this* help every application on the security road.
Today, more and more software is designed with security in mind. 10 years ago, nobody was careful about this.
How could programmers know how to code secure software without review full disclosures of other software ?
Yes, there are "secure programming" mailing-lists, but they'd be abstract and far from the reality without any knowledge of real cases.
Why aren't new languages based on Forth ?
Forth is very fast, because you can work at very low level with it. Forth applications can be portable, while staying extremely optimized. Forth can be easily extended to fit any sort of application, and you can have the feeling of a very high level language, while keeping the control of things that needs special optimizations.
Now, when someone will show how good he is in maths, I will tell him about that. Chances are that he'd never have heard about this discovery, and he will shut up.
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Don't use password authentication with SSH / OpenSSH .
The beauty of *SSH is that you can use crypto keys for authentication. With ssh-keygen -tdsa , you create a pair of keys. id_dsa is the private one (keep it on your computer), and id_dsa.pub is the public one. You can copy the public one in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 on every server you are willing to access. The public key can be given to everyone, you can even put it in your signature so that people can grant you access to their machines if they want to.
When the public/private keys matches, you can log in. No need to enter any password. Simple. Fast. Easy. Really handy (especially with scp). And it's secure. Don't tell me "yeah but if your client computer gets rooted, the bad guy can grab your private key". First, LIDS can hide the private key. Then, you can add a passphrase if you want. Next, if your computer gets rooted, the bad guy can always install a keyboard sniffer.
Try DSA authentication. It rules. And it solves the problem of people chosing trivial passwords. Once you only use DSA authentication, you can disable password authentication in your sshd_config file.
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People familiar with Windows or MacOS will be lost with Gnome, or any new user interface. Because they already know icons, locations, shortcuts, etc. Working on something different needs time.
My girlfriend never used computers before we met together. And on my computer, there's only OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Linux. I showed her how to log in, browse internet, paint, play music, print photos, etc. Her desktop has icons for main applications.
And she's not lost. She can use the computer without any help. With Linux, FreeBSD or OpenBSD.
The last week, she had to work on Word 2000 at her daily job. She was totally lost, found Windows slow and ugly, didn't understand why the word processor had so many complicated buttons and menus, etc.
So no interface is more intuitive than another. It's just a question of what you are more familiar with.
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1 Tb for $5000 is nice. Size is one thing, but the underlying software is another thing.
Netapp filers are expensive, but excellent because the filesystem (designed by former SGI employees, who designed XFS) rocks. It's fast, it's damn reliable, and the "snapshot" feature kicks ass. Also, their NFS implementation works flawlessly (and this is a *rare* thing) .
So SDSC has a nice project on the hardware part, but I wouldn't trust them for production servers.
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Almost everybody left Napster, and with the 99% blocking, I don't think Napster will ever be a popular service anew.
The court decision doesn't change anything. Instead of ordering Napster to close its doors, they have a green light, but they must block anything and lose all their visitors. The result is the same, only the form changes.
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Web sites using Java applets are lousy. Most of the time, Java is only used for useless bloat like animated buttons or customized menus. It needs a lot of memory and CPU for this crap.
I'm using Opera on Linux, without Java support. And it's great. I really don't need a Java-enabled browser. Java is now old-fashionned, webmasters leaved it in favor of Flash. Flash achieves the same thing, but it's lightweight, less bug-prone and creating flash files doesn't require any programming knowledge.
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The article only states that Ximian and Microsoft just *talked* together. Nothing more. Microsoft didn't help the project in any way yet, and chances are that they'll never do.
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Moby did a similar challenge some years ago. On an album, there was an accapella of "everytime you touch me". But the mixed song wasn't released. Moby asked people to do something with this accapella. Then, the "everytime you touch me" single was released, with Moby mixes and contributed winner mixes.
Also, a bunch of Moby fans worked on a compilation of remixes called "Thanks" (find my "emptiness" remix there) . Moby got a piece of that compilation, enjoyed it, and proposed his help (original samples) for "Thanks 2".
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It's always nice to see distros that don't focus only on Intel processors.
Portability is one of the major strength of free software.
Humidity, 50 degrees F ? Gasp, computers will get a cold.
Most people are using SQL engines just to store basic records, that sometimes even don't need any sort of indexation.
SQL engines are slow and unreliable. Almost everytime I see a web site down (even Freshmeat) it's due to a database crash. SQL is a brain damaged query language. SQL tables have an horrible obsolete Cobol-like structure (every record must have a fixed len to be handled efficiently, types are fixed, etc) .
Sure, they can be useful for something.
But for 99% of the projects they are used for, they could be easily replaced with a simple indexing library like CDB, GDBM or BerkeleyDB (BDB itself is very powerful, it has a lot of nifty features, plus it's rock solid and damn fast) .
Or even flat files. I've seen so many people using complex SQL tables just to store 50 poor records. Just crazy. Do people know that filesystems can store data, too ? Does Squid need Oracle to store the cache ?
I never used SQL (although I coded large search engines and other stuff that stores and index a lot of data) . And I don't want to. BerkeleyDB achieve the same thing on a 386 than *SQL on a Thunderbird.
Sourceforge is a marvellous thing for developpers and it helps a lot the free software community.
However, Sourceforge is very buggy. Sometimes the CVS server refuses authentication. Sometimes, uploading new releases is impossible. Sometimes, I have to authenticate dozens of time. And it doesn't like Opera.
Maybe VA should fix Sourceforge before selling it.
What if porn sites were moving to this ?
<sylvia>
<brain></brain>
<hole>*</hole>
<hole>*</hole>
<hole>*</hole>
</sylvia>
It'd be so boring !
If you want an open and portable equivalent of Direct X (not only Direct 3D), go for SDL.
SDL supports 2D graphics, but also 3D (through OpenGL wrappers), CD-Rom operations, sound, network, load/save of bitmap formats, joystick, etc. And it can renders on windows, X11, svgalib, GGI, AA, BeOS, etc.
SDL is very easy to program, and everything is designed in a very consistent way.
I had to set up a server running SCO Unix for a large web site. It was years ago, in the Linux 1.2 days. /etc directory. I had to reinstall everything from scratch. One day of uptime, wow.
SCO was a pain to install, there was even no driver for our classical adaptec adapter. We had to call the support and wait during one week to have a fucking floppy disk with the driver.
Then, compiling anything on the box (like the first release of the "Apache" server) was a pain. A lot of libraries like 'crypt' were missing. I had to tweak the source code a lot, port external libraries, etc. to have something that worked on SCO.
And the kernel crashed. I rebooted, and a lot of files were corrupted, including almost everything in the
It finally worked, I just had to import the existing web pages and images from a DAT tape. Guess what ? Only 2 Gb tapes were supported by SCO, and the support center was unable to help.
I ended up wiping the hard disk, and installed Linux. Everything worked perfectly, and what took me an entiere week of work with SCO was redone in 3 hours with Linux.
SCO has probably improved since, but I don't trust that operating system any more. It was dog slow, it was a hell to compile anything on it, the default shell was an horror, it didn't support common hardware...
If you don't like the Linux kernel, watch out for Debian/OpenBSD instead.
Blame Microsoft for having released software with huge security flaws.
Full disclosure is definitely a good thing. Not only it pressures software vendors to release a patch, but it also help other programmers to understand good programming practices.
And *this* help every application on the security road.
Today, more and more software is designed with security in mind. 10 years ago, nobody was careful about this.
How could programmers know how to code secure software without review full disclosures of other software ?
Yes, there are "secure programming" mailing-lists, but they'd be abstract and far from the reality without any knowledge of real cases.
C and Perl are often hard to read, too. And OO languages are an horror when you have to walk through dozens of classes to find a function.
Why aren't new languages based on Forth ? Forth is very fast, because you can work at very low level with it. Forth applications can be portable, while staying extremely optimized. Forth can be easily extended to fit any sort of application, and you can have the feeling of a very high level language, while keeping the control of things that needs special optimizations.
Now, when someone will show how good he is in maths, I will tell him about that. Chances are that he'd never have heard about this discovery, and he will shut up.
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Are Macintosh running Outlook also vulnerable to these shits ?
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Don't use password authentication with SSH / OpenSSH .
The beauty of *SSH is that you can use crypto keys for authentication. With ssh-keygen -tdsa , you create a pair of keys. id_dsa is the private one (keep it on your computer), and id_dsa.pub is the public one. You can copy the public one in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 on every server you are willing to access. The public key can be given to everyone, you can even put it in your signature so that people can grant you access to their machines if they want to.
When the public/private keys matches, you can log in. No need to enter any password. Simple. Fast. Easy. Really handy (especially with scp). And it's secure. Don't tell me "yeah but if your client computer gets rooted, the bad guy can grab your private key". First, LIDS can hide the private key. Then, you can add a passphrase if you want. Next, if your computer gets rooted, the bad guy can always install a keyboard sniffer.
Try DSA authentication. It rules. And it solves the problem of people chosing trivial passwords. Once you only use DSA authentication, you can disable password authentication in your sshd_config file.
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Looks nice. However, I can't see the price. How much are they ?
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...and even babies, check my OpenBSD baby .
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Mozilla, XMMS, Gimp, Compupic, Gphoto, Balsa, Freecell, ...
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People familiar with Windows or MacOS will be lost with Gnome, or any new user interface. Because they already know icons, locations, shortcuts, etc. Working on something different needs time.
My girlfriend never used computers before we met together. And on my computer, there's only OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Linux. I showed her how to log in, browse internet, paint, play music, print photos, etc. Her desktop has icons for main applications.
And she's not lost. She can use the computer without any help. With Linux, FreeBSD or OpenBSD.
The last week, she had to work on Word 2000 at her daily job. She was totally lost, found Windows slow and ugly, didn't understand why the word processor had so many complicated buttons and menus, etc.
So no interface is more intuitive than another. It's just a question of what you are more familiar with.
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1 Tb for $5000 is nice. Size is one thing, but the underlying software is another thing.
Netapp filers are expensive, but excellent because the filesystem (designed by former SGI employees, who designed XFS) rocks. It's fast, it's damn reliable, and the "snapshot" feature kicks ass. Also, their NFS implementation works flawlessly (and this is a *rare* thing) .
So SDSC has a nice project on the hardware part, but I wouldn't trust them for production servers.
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"Good stuff takes 10 years"
This guy must be talking about red wine, not software.
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Almost everybody left Napster, and with the 99% blocking, I don't think Napster will ever be a popular service anew.
The court decision doesn't change anything. Instead of ordering Napster to close its doors, they have a green light, but they must block anything and lose all their visitors. The result is the same, only the form changes.
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Web sites using Java applets are lousy. Most of the time, Java is only used for useless bloat like animated buttons or customized menus. It needs a lot of memory and CPU for this crap.
I'm using Opera on Linux, without Java support. And it's great. I really don't need a Java-enabled browser. Java is now old-fashionned, webmasters leaved it in favor of Flash. Flash achieves the same thing, but it's lightweight, less bug-prone and creating flash files doesn't require any programming knowledge.
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The article only states that Ximian and Microsoft just *talked* together. Nothing more. Microsoft didn't help the project in any way yet, and chances are that they'll never do.
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And what about Thinkgeek, also selling over-cafeinated mints and drinks ?
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How long will postcards need to go to the earth ?
Will there be plenty of bandwidth ?
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Moby did a similar challenge some years ago. On an album, there was an accapella of "everytime you touch me". But the mixed song wasn't released. Moby asked people to do something with this accapella. Then, the "everytime you touch me" single was released, with Moby mixes and contributed winner mixes.
Also, a bunch of Moby fans worked on a compilation of remixes called "Thanks" (find my "emptiness" remix there) . Moby got a piece of that compilation, enjoyed it, and proposed his help (original samples) for "Thanks 2".
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