Ingres code did make it in to Postgres, but I don't know if any of it is in PostgreSQL. I'm sure there was a lot initially, but I seriously doubt there's any there anymore.
Keep in mind that when you abbreviate PostgreSQL to "Postgres", you're really talking about a seperate, older product.
I guess it doesn't really matter, since Postgres is long gone, but it still annoys me every time I see it.
Since Takuo took over, they've been updated really quickly. I wouldn't be too surprised if the deb was in unstable by today (Tuesday) or tommorrow (Wednesday).
Bad sector(s) on a floppy disk that needed to be present in the drive for the program to run. The disk could not be copied easily using conventional means, but soon people wrote programs to crack the protection.
My favorite was the Copy II Plus program for the Apple II. It was a commercial program with a built-in, ever-updated list of copy-protected programs and internal instructions on how to copy them. It made pirating software trivial. (Hey, I was 9, OK? Right and wrong were fuzzy topics.)
The best part about it, though, was that it actually had copy protection itself, but contained instructions on how to defeat its own copy protection.
I always thought that was totally nuts.
Unless we have some kind of digital speakers...Yes, there is a quality loss when sampling the analog output
We do have digital "speakers". It's called S/PDIF.
Any modern CD player and reciever should have it. (My $200 Sony disc changer does. So does my $250 Technics reciever... this stuff is consumer-grade). If you do any music production, there's a good chance you have inputs and outputs on your computer, too.
Start your computer recording and then play just one track on the CD player. Strip leading and trailing silence. You now have a perfect digital copy.
Not only do I rip all my CDs for convenience (as mentioned by other people), I also know people who rip the CDs, compress them with FLAC, and write the FLAC files and the TOC to CDR so that if the CD gets scratched (and I know this happens to me, despite my best efforts) or stolen (this has also happened to me, out of my car) they can recreate a new CD basically identical to the original one.
You don't save too much with FLAC, but enough that you can fit at least two CDs onto one CDR (if you match the sizes... pick a big and a short one, or two average ones).
400 CDrs (for 800 CDs) @.30 = $120. You've saved money if you have to replace more than 8 or 9.
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Ingres code did make it in to Postgres, but I don't know if any of it is in PostgreSQL. I'm sure there was a lot initially, but I seriously doubt there's any there anymore.
Keep in mind that when you abbreviate PostgreSQL to "Postgres", you're really talking about a seperate, older product.
I guess it doesn't really matter, since Postgres is long gone, but it still annoys me every time I see it.
You should use GTK or Qt or Motif.
That's what they're for.
Are you running unstable?
Since Takuo took over, they've been updated really quickly. I wouldn't be too surprised if the deb was in unstable by today (Tuesday) or tommorrow (Wednesday).
And hell, if you do it in C++, you'll be even more of a programming head and even more valuable.
Yeah, but you'd be stuck programming that lame hack of a language known as C++ for the rest of your life.
*shiver*
That's not something I'd like to think about.
Bad sector(s) on a floppy disk that needed to be present in the drive for the program to run. The disk could not be copied easily using conventional means, but soon people wrote programs to crack the protection. My favorite was the Copy II Plus program for the Apple II. It was a commercial program with a built-in, ever-updated list of copy-protected programs and internal instructions on how to copy them. It made pirating software trivial. (Hey, I was 9, OK? Right and wrong were fuzzy topics.) The best part about it, though, was that it actually had copy protection itself, but contained instructions on how to defeat its own copy protection. I always thought that was totally nuts.
Unless we have some kind of digital speakers...Yes, there is a quality loss when sampling the analog output
We do have digital "speakers". It's called S/PDIF.
Any modern CD player and reciever should have it. (My $200 Sony disc changer does. So does my $250 Technics reciever... this stuff is consumer-grade). If you do any music production, there's a good chance you have inputs and outputs on your computer, too.
Start your computer recording and then play just one track on the CD player. Strip leading and trailing silence. You now have a perfect digital copy.
Not only do I rip all my CDs for convenience (as mentioned by other people), I also know people who rip the CDs, compress them with FLAC, and write the FLAC files and the TOC to CDR so that if the CD gets scratched (and I know this happens to me, despite my best efforts) or stolen (this has also happened to me, out of my car) they can recreate a new CD basically identical to the original one.
.30 = $120. You've saved money if you have to replace more than 8 or 9.
You don't save too much with FLAC, but enough that you can fit at least two CDs onto one CDR (if you match the sizes... pick a big and a short one, or two average ones).
400 CDrs (for 800 CDs) @
So, those people do exist. I know two.
This site has archived television from all over the world on September 11th-September 18th.
I've been pretty jaded and unpatriotic/anti-war about the whole thing, but I can't help but admit I still get creeped out watching the footage.