And Oracle, now that they own Innobase, can knock Mysql AB's product (which is distinct from Mysql proper) back to MySql 3.x status at their next negotiation for a proprietary license, which occurs next year.
Yes, New Orleans holds much history. The loss in life (and note that I do not say human life; The flood did not discriminate based upon species) was great.
But part of our history was lost as well. To be honest, I have felt a bit guilty about worrying about buildings and historical landmarks in the face of such suffering and personal loss. But the history is just as irreplaceable.
My God! Considering the magnitude of the disaster in a city of which I have many fond memories, it had not ocurred to me that someone might be deranged enough to blame Southern Decadence.
For those unfamiliar, "Southern Decadence" is the rather tongue in cheek name for a sort of Gay Mardis Gras that occurs in late summer in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
It has all of the "good feelings and camaraderie" aspect to it that Mardis Gras does. And everyone is welcome. Gay or just "Gay Friendly", it doesn't matter a whit. (Many people are from out of town, but many are not, and I worry about those who are New Orleans residents.)
And yes, there is lots of drinking, just like at Mardis Gras.
I would say that I feel sorry for the proprietors of repentamerica.com. But the sad fact is that they are probably perfectly alright with their self-righteous, jaundiced outlook.
And what's with that business about "just days before Southern Decadence"? No one shows up early for Southern Decadence. It's like Mardis Gras. It's fun, but it lasts "just long enough" without any prelude.
Excuse me, but the parent is nothing but two posts from osnews.com glued together with a couple of cosmetic changes applied. (And the posts were not made by the person who wrote this here. I know because *I* wrote one of the posts he is plagiarising!)
Wasn't the Vorbis reference implementation released under the BSD license? (And IIRC, RMS publicly agreed with the reasons for doing so.)
I'll refrain from commenting upon the relative lickability (or non-lickability) of your ass, if you don't mind. I suspect that the point is rather moot, anyway, what with you living in your parents' basement and all...
FWIW, I sent a (polite) comment suggesting that she seek professional help for her emotional problems.
It was simply the best advice I could think of. The article simply did not read like it had been written by an emotionally balanced person, and I fear that she is a danger to herself, and more importantly, to others.
> After my Windows box recently lost its life in a puff of awful smelling smoke...
Have you considered that this may have been an act of God? By that, I do not mean the sort of natural disaster, God Works In Mysterious Ways, sort of Voodoo hooey that you might think. What I mean is: Have you considered that God may have targeted your Windows box for execution?
If so, perhaps you should not just replace the MB, but also everything else about it. The case, the CDRom drive, certainly the memory, the hard drive, and most importantly, the OS. Keeping the keyboard, mouse, and monitor might be OK, but make certain to wash them thorougly. The keyboard and mouse you can steam in the shower. (Trust me, it works.) For the monitor you'll have to open it up and use 100% isopropyl aclohol and a box of Q-Tips. (Do not use the 70% kind you find at the grocery store! It's not strong enough!)
Also, it would be considerate of you not to endanger the rest of us (and our machines) through guilt by association by coming around here asking how you can save a few bucks by buying a really cheap, stripped down MB to connect your tainted hardware and evil, malevolent OS back into.
My advice? Give up. Join a monestery. And pray for forgiveness.
(I hope that didn't come off seeming too harsh...)
But if you do a search on their site, you see that this is far from their first positive article about Firefox. And the 2 page ad placed by a (true) grass roots organization is news in and of itself. They cover in the article, of course, the fact that ad was placed with them. I see no problem here.
> because I can assume all I will be greeted with is the same FUD from both camps
Actually, I don't think either site even mentions the other.
I have been looking around for performance comparisons and have found very little. A TPC-W implementation exists which supports both MySQL and PostgreSQL. I've run the pgsql config, but have been unable to get the MySQL config to run, so I don't have a comparison of my own yet. The author of the implemetation wrote somewhere that on low end hardware (I think it was a pentium II something with 384MB) that the 2 RDBM's were head to head. With pgsql not using pgpools (a connection pooling layer) MySQL was slightly faster. With pgpools, pgsql pulled ahead slightly. I believe the versions involved were psgql 7.4.x and MySQL 4.1.x, so it's pretty current.
It's really no more complex than MySQL. (Feature for feature, that is. Once you start *using* the more advanced features of pgsql, it might be more complex, simply because what you are doing is more complex.) MySQL's speed advantages over PostgreSQL are hearsay. Think about it. Have you ever actually seen any numbers? Actual benchmark comparisons are hard to come by. Actually, I have seen TPC-W results for the two on very low end hardware and they're head to head.
Contrary to what all the PHP/MySQL books say, the features of pgsql can be quite useful, even if you are "just pushing out webpages". I know this quite well as I just ported my current project from MySQL 4.1.3 beta to pgsql 7.4.3 stable. My needs are quite simple, and I can say without any qualification that I have found pgsql to be of higher quality than MySQL.
Yeah. The creeping terror is a hoot and is hands down *THE* most entertainingly bad movie I have ever seen. What makes it so great is that the makers of the movie are deadly serious and have a message to deliver. This put's it an order of magnitude beyond, say, Plan Nine, where the makers actually had a sense of humor about the badness of the movie.
Wish I still had a copy of this little Gem.
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As others have said, it really depends on how much labor is worth where you live.
I order my X terminals from Wal-Mart for $199 a piece (plus monitor). I spend about 20 minutes installing my own customized version of Fedora, from a kickstard CD I made up for the purpose.
So if I use one of the units as the machine to actually run the X apps on and use the rest as just terminals, I could do four stations for:
4 * ($199 + $109) = $1232
And spend probably a couple of hours setting it all up.
Doing it all on one machine, I'd still need to buy 1 (heftier) machine, 4 monitors, 3 keyboards, 3 mice, 3 video cards. Plus 3 sets of speakers and 3 sound cards to match the functionality of the walmart units. (Oops, just ran out of PCI slots. Maybe usb sound would be better.) Assuming $15 for a keyboard, $9 for a mouse, $30 for speakers/usb sound interface.
$299 + 4($109) + 3*(15) + 3(9) + 3(30) = $897
So I could save $335, or ~$84 per workstation.
Please don't get me wrong; this project is interesting. But I think I'll stick to my more "standard" solution for now.
Then again, if this was all packaged up into a nice turnkey system, it might be nice.
In case anyone is wondering, I pulled the estimated prices for monitor, keyboards, mice, and sound out of the air, but I don't think they're too far off.;-)
Just for the record, I would like to predict that on Jan 1, 10000 much of the software currently in existence will malfunction unless it is modified to handle 5 digit years.
Bemer made his prediction 29 years in advance. I'm making mine 7996 years in advance. So there!:-)
I protest this unfair representation of Gentoo that Netcraft is spewing. Of course, when you consider the source, it's not surprising. These guys have been saying for ages that Microsoft has fewer web servers than apache.
Netcraft claims that, of the Linux distros represented, Gentoo has a microscopic 0.86% of the servers, and is only growing at 19.5% per year. While this data may be true at present, it is misleading, since it does not take into account the number of Gentoo servers on which apache is not running because it is still compiling.
Just wait till my compile finishes, and those of the many others compiling apache RIGHT NOW! You'll see that Gentoo is a force to be reckoned with!
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And Oracle, now that they own Innobase, can knock Mysql AB's product (which is distinct from Mysql proper) back to MySql 3.x status at their next negotiation for a proprietary license, which occurs next year.
You forgot "peg legs" and "hooks".
Yes, New Orleans holds much history. The loss in life (and note that I do not say human life; The flood did not discriminate based upon species) was great. But part of our history was lost as well. To be honest, I have felt a bit guilty about worrying about buildings and historical landmarks in the face of such suffering and personal loss. But the history is just as irreplaceable.
My God! Considering the magnitude of the disaster in a city of which I have many fond memories, it had not ocurred to me that someone might be deranged enough to blame Southern Decadence. For those unfamiliar, "Southern Decadence" is the rather tongue in cheek name for a sort of Gay Mardis Gras that occurs in late summer in the French Quarter of New Orleans. It has all of the "good feelings and camaraderie" aspect to it that Mardis Gras does. And everyone is welcome. Gay or just "Gay Friendly", it doesn't matter a whit. (Many people are from out of town, but many are not, and I worry about those who are New Orleans residents.) And yes, there is lots of drinking, just like at Mardis Gras. I would say that I feel sorry for the proprietors of repentamerica.com. But the sad fact is that they are probably perfectly alright with their self-righteous, jaundiced outlook. And what's with that business about "just days before Southern Decadence"? No one shows up early for Southern Decadence. It's like Mardis Gras. It's fun, but it lasts "just long enough" without any prelude.
I'm sure that Lexmark's legal department is working on that angle. Stay tuned...
Excuse me, but the parent is nothing but two posts from osnews.com glued together with a couple of cosmetic changes applied. (And the posts were not made by the person who wrote this here. I know because *I* wrote one of the posts he is plagiarising!)
Wasn't the Vorbis reference implementation released under the BSD license? (And IIRC, RMS publicly agreed with the reasons for doing so.) I'll refrain from commenting upon the relative lickability (or non-lickability) of your ass, if you don't mind. I suspect that the point is rather moot, anyway, what with you living in your parents' basement and all...
You can do that... When it's up, just start typing.
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FWIW, I sent a (polite) comment suggesting that she seek professional help for her emotional problems.
It was simply the best advice I could think of. The article simply did not read like it had been written by an emotionally balanced person, and I fear that she is a danger to herself, and more importantly, to others.
> After my Windows box recently lost its life in a puff of awful smelling smoke... Have you considered that this may have been an act of God? By that, I do not mean the sort of natural disaster, God Works In Mysterious Ways, sort of Voodoo hooey that you might think. What I mean is: Have you considered that God may have targeted your Windows box for execution? If so, perhaps you should not just replace the MB, but also everything else about it. The case, the CDRom drive, certainly the memory, the hard drive, and most importantly, the OS. Keeping the keyboard, mouse, and monitor might be OK, but make certain to wash them thorougly. The keyboard and mouse you can steam in the shower. (Trust me, it works.) For the monitor you'll have to open it up and use 100% isopropyl aclohol and a box of Q-Tips. (Do not use the 70% kind you find at the grocery store! It's not strong enough!) Also, it would be considerate of you not to endanger the rest of us (and our machines) through guilt by association by coming around here asking how you can save a few bucks by buying a really cheap, stripped down MB to connect your tainted hardware and evil, malevolent OS back into. My advice? Give up. Join a monestery. And pray for forgiveness. (I hope that didn't come off seeming too harsh...)
I heard that Sun might buy AT&T. Here's the scoop:
"I mean think about it. What would it be worth to own the company that IBM depends on to make it's every phone call. Interesting..."
-Jonathan Schwartz
But if you do a search on their site, you see that this is far from their first positive article about Firefox. And the 2 page ad placed by a (true) grass roots organization is news in and of itself. They cover in the article, of course, the fact that ad was placed with them. I see no problem here.
Does setting xpinstall.enabled to "false" in about:config help?
SCO OpenServer 5 has done parallelized boots since the mid 1990's. Seriously.
Subject says it all. Please don't mod this down just because you don't understand the reference.
It's not just here. I'm noticing a shift in allegience from MySQL to PostgreSQL everywhere.
And as others have said. It's about time. It's been far superior to MySQL for many years.
Ahh, there it is: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-advocacy/2004 -08/msg00030.php
> because I can assume all I will be greeted with is the same FUD from both camps
Actually, I don't think either site even mentions the other.
I have been looking around for performance comparisons and have found very little. A TPC-W implementation exists which supports both MySQL and PostgreSQL. I've run the pgsql config, but have been unable to get the MySQL config to run, so I don't have a comparison of my own yet. The author of the implemetation wrote somewhere that on low end hardware (I think it was a pentium II something with 384MB) that the 2 RDBM's were head to head. With pgsql not using pgpools (a connection pooling layer) MySQL was slightly faster. With pgpools, pgsql pulled ahead slightly. I believe the versions involved were psgql 7.4.x and MySQL 4.1.x, so it's pretty current.
Oops. Looks like you haven't used PostgreSQL.
It's really no more complex than MySQL. (Feature for feature, that is. Once you start *using* the more advanced features of pgsql, it might be more complex, simply because what you are doing is more complex.) MySQL's speed advantages over PostgreSQL are hearsay. Think about it. Have you ever actually seen any numbers? Actual benchmark comparisons are hard to come by. Actually, I have seen TPC-W results for the two on very low end hardware and they're head to head.
Contrary to what all the PHP/MySQL books say, the features of pgsql can be quite useful, even if you are "just pushing out webpages". I know this quite well as I just ported my current project from MySQL 4.1.3 beta to pgsql 7.4.3 stable. My needs are quite simple, and I can say without any qualification that I have found pgsql to be of higher quality than MySQL.
Yeah. The creeping terror is a hoot and is hands down *THE* most entertainingly bad movie I have ever seen. What makes it so great is that the makers of the movie are deadly serious and have a message to deliver. This put's it an order of magnitude beyond, say, Plan Nine, where the makers actually had a sense of humor about the badness of the movie.
Wish I still had a copy of this little Gem.
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As others have said, it really depends on how much labor is worth where you live.
;-)
I order my X terminals from Wal-Mart for $199 a piece (plus monitor). I spend about 20 minutes installing my own customized version of Fedora, from a kickstard CD I made up for the purpose.
So if I use one of the units as the machine to actually run the X apps on and use the rest as just terminals, I could do four stations for:
4 * ($199 + $109) = $1232
And spend probably a couple of hours setting it all up.
Doing it all on one machine, I'd still need to buy 1 (heftier) machine, 4 monitors, 3 keyboards, 3 mice, 3 video cards. Plus 3 sets of speakers and 3 sound cards to match the functionality of the walmart units. (Oops, just ran out of PCI slots. Maybe usb sound would be better.) Assuming $15 for a keyboard, $9 for a mouse, $30 for speakers/usb sound interface.
$299 + 4($109) + 3*(15) + 3(9) + 3(30) = $897
So I could save $335, or ~$84 per workstation.
Please don't get me wrong; this project is interesting. But I think I'll stick to my more "standard" solution for now.
Then again, if this was all packaged up into a nice turnkey system, it might be nice.
In case anyone is wondering, I pulled the estimated prices for monitor, keyboards, mice, and sound out of the air, but I don't think they're too far off.
Just for the record, I would like to predict that on Jan 1, 10000 much of the software currently in existence will malfunction unless it is modified to handle 5 digit years. Bemer made his prediction 29 years in advance. I'm making mine 7996 years in advance. So there! :-)
I protest this unfair representation of Gentoo that Netcraft is spewing. Of course, when you consider the source, it's not surprising. These guys have been saying for ages that Microsoft has fewer web servers than apache.
Netcraft claims that, of the Linux distros represented, Gentoo has a microscopic 0.86% of the servers, and is only growing at 19.5% per year. While this data may be true at present, it is misleading, since it does not take into account the number of Gentoo servers on which apache is not running because it is still compiling.
Just wait till my compile finishes, and those of the many others compiling apache RIGHT NOW! You'll see that Gentoo is a force to be reckoned with!
Save it in an attachment. Add a little viral magic and send it off into the ether. World domination may be closer than you think... ;-)