What am I missing? You are missing that recent versions don't need that anymore as it will auto-vacuum for you incrementally in the background. You should still run a "vacuum full analyze" after schema changes though but you usually don't change the schema live on heavily loaded databases anyway...
I always use PostgreSQL for production but for this package Sqlite would be perfect. Sqlite is perfect to develop with until you have something usable. Then you can switch to Postgres (or MySQL or whatever) and run your tests to make sure everything works.
Nexenta OS: Ubuntu userland with OpenSolaris kernel. Has been in development since 2005 and it's quite usable already (especially as a server) if your hardware is supported. The latest beta allows you to boot straight into a ZFS root filesystem.
If you want to run multiple linux instances on the cheap then xen is the way to go at the moment. Except that OpenVZ is a better way to go in that case. If you are only going to run multiple instances of Linux, with OpenVZ you don't need to preallocate a fixed amount of memory for each VM, the root filesystem can be a subdirectory of the root OS instance's filesystem, among many other things. It can do just about everything that XEN can do, including live migration to other physical nodes.
Just fine, thank you. Of course it depends on what you are using it for, though. If you are using it to compile software, run web apps, batch-encode music and/or run software written in Erlang you can easily max out more cores than that. If you use it to play games or rip one DVD at a time it won't be much faster than if you had only one or two cores.
Qt 4 is actually very good at making apps written in it look and feel like normal carbon/cocoa apps, but only if you use Qt4's features and follow its conventions where they are available. For example if you use QSettings for configuration it will store your settings in plists in ~/Library/Preferences on MacOS, use the registry on Windows and some ~/.foorc ini or xml file on *nix. It will also rearrange menu items, button order etc if you follow the naming conventions.
Most UI problems I've seen with Qt-apps on OSX are there either because Qt was used as just a GTK or MFC replacement and not as a platform, or they use Qt 3 which isn't nearly as good as Qt 4 on OSX.
Unless your station is talk-only, 64k stereo/22k mono mp3 is totally unlistenable. If you don't have the bandwidth for a "full" 128k ogg or aac stream, at least provide a ~80k stereo ogg/vorbis stream. Not much more bandwidth but it will be listenable without giving headaches. Or send a single "full quality" 128k ogg stream to the PeerCast network while providing the modem/isdn-streams like you do now.
I think most people realize pretty well that governments are not very representative of the general public of a country. Even in democratic countries most people vote for the "least bad option". We europeans don't judge americans from the actions of your leaders. We judge you based on the supposedly "general public" we see on shows like Ricky Lake, Jerry Springer and similar.:)
I have 24M/8M uncapped for ca $40 in Sweden. I could download a terabyte each month and nobody would complain. I can only max it out (~2.8 MB/sec) on private scandinavian and Korean trackers though, and some FTP sites. It's hard to reach even as little as 100 KB/sec download on trackers dominated by users from other countries.
That said, I have no idea why this alliance is needed, even after reading most of their site. We already have Prototype, MooTools, jQuery and other great libraries. I'd be perfectly happy if Microsoft could just make IE fully support CSS instead of joining this buzzword-masturbating alliance...
In the places I've worked, people's desks' messiness has been quite proportionate to their tech knowledge and productivity. They have been the most skilled, most productive, and also often the most humble and nice. Yet usually they are the ones least appreciated by the bosses...
You're downloading from the wrong sites, man, or you live somewhere where bandwidth is too meager or expensive. You should be downloading the full, ripped DVDs over a few nights.
A few nights? Maybe you live somewhere where bandwidth is too meager or expensive, or you're downloading from the wrong sites...
Debian comes with nearly 20000 applications. 800 is absolutely nothing.
Yeah, I especially love xcwcp and uutraf! libf2c2 is a great application also, and let's not forget about k7fftwgel-dev, it's just SO much better than k6fftwgel-dev!
MusicAnalysis uses up to 10 minutes of a track and examines all sorts of things. This is the secret sauce that makes MusicIP tick, and that allows the MusicIP mixer (aka MusicMagicMixer or MMM) to generate playlists of similar music. This is never going to be open sourced. Music analysis takes a while (about 80% of the file's playing time).
In order to generate a new PUID, you must analyze a track fully. Currently you have to use the MusicIP mixer in order to do this. The result of this analysis is submitted to the MusicDNS service and is used by the MusicDNS server to do fuzzy matching. This data is closed source, patented, and even secret (the closed source app MusicIP mixer sends the data to a closed source server, and it never sees the light of the public). The only thing that gets public is the Portable Unique IDentifier (PUID), which is a 128-bit ID of the respective analysis data on the MusicDNS server.
Yeah... more accurate than FreeDB, but less free.
No, it isn't. Everything in MusicBrainz except the audio fingerprinting is as open as it gets. You can download the source code for everything including the website and you can even have your local copy of the database and keep it in sync with theirs, for free. They have been looking hard for open audio fingerprinting solutions but they simply aren't available. Read the mailing list archives for details...
Anything you can do with FreeDB you can do with Musicbrainz using only Free software and Free data. The fingerprinting stuff is completly optional.
I get your points but I was mostly talking about a home LAN, not just getting multiple computers connected to the internet.
Try to watch a movie from the file server on one desktop while another desktop is backing up its data. There is a big chance that the movie will stutter like crazy because it can't fetch it fast enough if your LAN is wireless.
Try to have a [insert fast paced FPS game here] tournament on a wireless LAN. The latency will probably be way too high, especially if someone else is doing anything on the LAN at the same time.
I agree that a wireless LAN is superior in some cases though, because of its simplicity. It all depends on what you are using it for.
Lets see... Almost everybody who have more than one non-laptop computer in their house? Wired ethernet is cheaper, more reliable, more secure and WAY faster than wireless. This will be true for the foreseeable future.
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I always use PostgreSQL for production but for this package Sqlite would be perfect.
Sqlite is perfect to develop with until you have something usable. Then you can switch to Postgres (or MySQL or whatever) and run your tests to make sure everything works.
Nexenta OS: Ubuntu userland with OpenSolaris kernel. Has been in development since 2005 and it's quite usable already (especially as a server) if your hardware is supported. The latest beta allows you to boot straight into a ZFS root filesystem.
Just fine, thank you.
Of course it depends on what you are using it for, though. If you are using it to compile software, run web apps, batch-encode music and/or run software written in Erlang you can easily max out more cores than that. If you use it to play games or rip one DVD at a time it won't be much faster than if you had only one or two cores.
RTFA. Linux From Scratch is not about understanding the insides of the kernel, it's all about building a custom distro.
The graph hints that 2.6.0 is the last major release, but isn't the scheme 2.6.x.y where x is major and y is minor nowadays?
Qt 4 is actually very good at making apps written in it look and feel like normal carbon/cocoa apps, but only if you use Qt4's features and follow its conventions where they are available. For example if you use QSettings for configuration it will store your settings in plists in ~/Library/Preferences on MacOS, use the registry on Windows and some ~/.foorc ini or xml file on *nix. It will also rearrange menu items, button order etc if you follow the naming conventions.
Most UI problems I've seen with Qt-apps on OSX are there either because Qt was used as just a GTK or MFC replacement and not as a platform, or they use Qt 3 which isn't nearly as good as Qt 4 on OSX.
Unless your station is talk-only, 64k stereo/22k mono mp3 is totally unlistenable. If you don't have the bandwidth for a "full" 128k ogg or aac stream, at least provide a ~80k stereo ogg/vorbis stream. Not much more bandwidth but it will be listenable without giving headaches. Or send a single "full quality" 128k ogg stream to the PeerCast network while providing the modem/isdn-streams like you do now.
I think most people realize pretty well that governments are not very representative of the general public of a country. Even in democratic countries most people vote for the "least bad option". We europeans don't judge americans from the actions of your leaders. We judge you based on the supposedly "general public" we see on shows like Ricky Lake, Jerry Springer and similar. :)
Who the hell is paying over 30 million dollars for a stupid domain name??!
I was expecting something like this...
Here you are.
I have 24M/8M uncapped for ca $40 in Sweden. I could download a terabyte each month and nobody would complain. I can only max it out (~2.8 MB/sec) on private scandinavian and Korean trackers though, and some FTP sites. It's hard to reach even as little as 100 KB/sec download on trackers dominated by users from other countries.
OpenAjax Alliance.
That said, I have no idea why this alliance is needed, even after reading most of their site. We already have Prototype, MooTools, jQuery and other great libraries. I'd be perfectly happy if Microsoft could just make IE fully support CSS instead of joining this buzzword-masturbating alliance...
In the places I've worked, people's desks' messiness has been quite proportionate to their tech knowledge and productivity. They have been the most skilled, most productive, and also often the most humble and nice. Yet usually they are the ones least appreciated by the bosses...
Debian comes with nearly 20000 applications. 800 is absolutely nothing.
Yeah, I especially love xcwcp and uutraf! libf2c2 is a great application also, and let's not forget about k7fftwgel-dev, it's just SO much better than k6fftwgel-dev!
No, it isn't. Everything in MusicBrainz except the audio fingerprinting is as open as it gets. You can download the source code for everything including the website and you can even have your local copy of the database and keep it in sync with theirs, for free. They have been looking hard for open audio fingerprinting solutions but they simply aren't available. Read the mailing list archives for details...
Anything you can do with FreeDB you can do with Musicbrainz using only Free software and Free data. The fingerprinting stuff is completly optional.
I get your points but I was mostly talking about a home LAN, not just getting multiple computers connected to the internet.
Try to watch a movie from the file server on one desktop while another desktop is backing up its data. There is a big chance that the movie will stutter like crazy because it can't fetch it fast enough if your LAN is wireless.
Try to have a [insert fast paced FPS game here] tournament on a wireless LAN. The latency will probably be way too high, especially if someone else is doing anything on the LAN at the same time.
I agree that a wireless LAN is superior in some cases though, because of its simplicity. It all depends on what you are using it for.
Who still uses wired ethernet in their house?
Lets see... Almost everybody who have more than one non-laptop computer in their house?
Wired ethernet is cheaper, more reliable, more secure and WAY faster than wireless. This will be true for the foreseeable future.
Most non-Sony DVD players sold in Europe are already region free, and they are perfectly legal.