Are you saying writing upgrade programs are easy? Or 'rolling-back' changes are easier? It's all fine and dandy when you're replacing static files, but dynamic files(i.e. migrating or de-migrating configuration files) are sometimes a nightmare especially when you can't test your scripts on machines with wacky configurations. And say bye-bye if you change format of stored data between versions.
Man, even after the days of the AMD Duron, heat-sink designers are still smoking crack and so out of clue - installing those fucking heat-sinks on AMD boards is the shittiest, difficult, piece of work in a computer(next to when things Don't Work(tm)).
Just that day, I installed yet another heatsink and just barely scratched the surface of the motherboard.
I don't know how many cursed words and sweat dripped from by forehead whenever I have to install one...I dunno why no one is like Intel where heat-sinks come with plastic leavers with huge handles that make installing a processor a snap out-of-the-box.
I have an IBM M-model keyboard...anyone want it? It's really bad for your fingers...if I try using it more than 3-days on-and-off or a day continously my arm and fingers begin to ache and thereafter go numb.
The keyboard maybe built like a rock, but it's like walking bare-foot on rock for many days. Not good.
How about instead of blaming the game makers, let's blame the PARENTS for
1: being irresonsible and leaving unlocked weapons around. 2: not teaching the kids gun safety 3: not knowing what the kids were up to
How about that parents don't know what the fuck their kids are doing, since most of the day they are at school. Then kids come home and watch crap on TV or loiter at the corner mall with their hip friends, while mommy and daddy are at work and don't come home until 7 or 8pm.
I like most people have been in school and that is where the evil brewing starts. It all depends on WHO YOUR FRIENDS and who you hang around with. Then coupled with "Group Think" and "Peer Pressure", not to mention self gratification of egos and and what not -- leads to many problems. I guarantee your kids will mold into whatever environment they spend 80% of their time in.
Also kids hate parents because as TV sitcom teaches us that parents are evil and kids have more rights than parents. So any kind of communication between parent and child is destroyed.
Has anyone tried to use VC to compile Linux programs? I think it might be possible if remote compiler or exec's a compiler with a remote shell script(i.e. via ssh).
Maybe debugging won't work(because VC doesn't understand Linux process model), but if compile, editing, source code browsing, etc. is possible -- then maybe I can escape vi and gdb.
2. master replicates the update to multiple slaves
Another question you want to ask: Are the updates synchronous, meaning if:
clientA updates row 1 at T1 then clientB should be able to read updated row 1 at T2. If not, then replication is only meant to be used as a backup and not as a distributed database.
If the updates are async, then at T2 clientB will get the old row1 or the new row1 - it all depends on the actual time data gets replicated to other boxes.
Have you even read the SAPDB webpage for licensing? Here it is
MaxDB will follow the MySQL dual licensing policy, which in short is "if you're free, we're free -- if you're commercial, we're commercial". This means that the product is released completely under the GPL and that a commercial license is offered to those customers who wish to distribute it commercially, without themselves being GPL. SAP DB has been offered under a different licensing scheme as the interfaces have been L-GPL.
However I think games and graphic drivers have not been tuned for SMP primarily because hardly anyone has such systems. And moreso - Windows *for home* was Uniprocessor only util Win2k,XP, etc. came along.
However I do believe, given the proliferation of SMP operating systems coupled with SMP systems, developers could find innovative ways to use the second CPU with minimum latency overhead.
Well, John Carmack did implement SMP for Quake2 or Quake3(don't remember which one at the moment). But I clearly remember it resulted in a 20-25% performance boost that really helped in heavy firefights.
The Quake2 source is available, but I haven't tested it on my smp rig.
"Plus, its easlier to play FPS using a trackball."
In what world? I have a Logitech TrackMan Marble+, and it nearly impossible to keep your "eye" steady or aim properly at a moving target. Part of it has to do that it's a round ball and not a flat 2-d plane like a mouse surface.
BUT the same analogy is if I have the original source called foo.c and produced foo-with-my-changes.c by passing the file through 'patch -p1 changes.diff'.
Whether extra code is added by GCC or patch, makes no difference in the outcome: you have extra code in the final binary for which you must provide the GPL'd source if the binary is distributed.
in other words, it's a high level language, as opposed to being one or two steps above asm.
But as a functional language, Perl lacks structure, but makes up for it's very free form nature. Just today I was converting a query from Perl to C. Perl's version of the query was approx 150 lines. C was close to 1000.
I'm learning Python now, so I can get a high level language with a bit more structure(i.e. datatypes are much more explicit). I'm aware that Perl has objects too, but it seems to me it was never an integral part of the language.
Windows systems need an administrator every bit as clueful as a UNIX sysadmin if they are to have any reliability at all.
The scope of software systems are the similar, it's the design and implementation that makes them different. Yes, people may hate Windows style or UNIX style of computing. Yet they are both complex software systems...
In a society that gives out credit card numbers as easily as names, it never ceases to amaze me the number of people that assume that their card number has been swiped from their trash
And merchants who fucking print out your WHOLE visa number + expiry date on your "gas bill" deserve to be shot.
I mean, I know my fucking VISA number already. Just put 5555*************** and my name, thank you.
I'm glad 2.5 is working good with you. But I'm experiencing laggy mouse response.
I have RH9 + XD2 under 2.5.75 - when I load a heavy web page(i.e. slashdot news with lotso comments) under my Galeon(or Mozilla) web browser my mouse goes laggy for a bit as the web page loads.
I solved this problem mostly by using Con Kolivas's desktop patch suite under 2.4. I don't know why the laggy mouse, but using the Variable HZ patch helped.
Slashdot Mirror
Are you saying writing upgrade programs are easy? Or 'rolling-back' changes are easier? It's all fine and dandy when you're replacing static files, but dynamic files(i.e. migrating or de-migrating configuration files) are sometimes a nightmare especially when you can't test your scripts on machines with wacky configurations. And say bye-bye if you change format of stored data between versions.
Man, even after the days of the AMD Duron, heat-sink designers are still smoking crack and so out of clue - installing those fucking heat-sinks on AMD boards is the shittiest, difficult, piece of work in a computer(next to when things Don't Work(tm)).
Just that day, I installed yet another heatsink and just barely scratched the surface of the motherboard.
I don't know how many cursed words and sweat dripped from by forehead whenever I have to install one...I dunno why no one is like Intel where heat-sinks come with plastic leavers with huge handles that make installing a processor a snap out-of-the-box.
I have an IBM M-model keyboard...anyone want it? It's really bad for your fingers...if I try using it more than 3-days on-and-off or a day continously my arm and fingers begin to ache and thereafter go numb.
The keyboard maybe built like a rock, but it's like walking bare-foot on rock for many days. Not good.
Kashif
How about instead of blaming the game makers, let's blame the PARENTS for
1: being irresonsible and leaving unlocked weapons around.
2: not teaching the kids gun safety
3: not knowing what the kids were up to
How about that parents don't know what the fuck their kids are doing, since most of the day they are at school. Then kids come home and watch crap on TV or loiter at the corner mall with their hip friends, while mommy and daddy are at work and don't come home until 7 or 8pm.
I like most people have been in school and that is where the evil brewing starts. It all depends on WHO YOUR FRIENDS and who you hang around with. Then coupled with "Group Think" and "Peer Pressure", not to mention self gratification of egos and and what not -- leads to many problems. I guarantee your kids will mold into whatever environment they spend 80% of their time in.
Also kids hate parents because as TV sitcom teaches us that parents are evil and kids have more rights than parents. So any kind of communication between parent and child is destroyed.
Has anyone tried to use VC to compile Linux programs? I think it might be possible if remote compiler or exec's a compiler with a remote shell script(i.e. via ssh).
Maybe debugging won't work(because VC doesn't understand Linux process model), but if compile, editing, source code browsing, etc. is possible -- then maybe I can escape vi and gdb.
kashif
I googled for VM papers and info, and I found not a lot of worthwhile free info on the web. Do you know of any such info?
I'm really interested in the whole virtual machine thingy, where CPUs, memory, etc. are virtualized.
2. master replicates the update to multiple slaves
Another question you want to ask: Are the updates synchronous, meaning if:
clientA updates row 1 at T1
then clientB should be able to read updated row 1 at T2. If not, then replication is only meant to be used as a backup and not as a distributed database.
If the updates are async, then at T2 clientB will get the old row1 or the new row1 - it all depends on the actual time data gets replicated to other boxes.
Kashif
Have you even read the SAPDB webpage for licensing? Here it is
MaxDB will follow the MySQL dual licensing policy, which in short is "if you're free, we're free -- if you're commercial, we're commercial". This means that the product is released completely under the GPL and that a commercial license is offered to those customers who wish to distribute it commercially, without themselves being GPL. SAP DB has been offered under a different licensing scheme as the interfaces have been L-GPL.
What is even more interesting is distributed transactions, where transactions are commited within a cluster and that new data can be seen immediately.
Interestingly, I recall quite fondly that Carmack said that Quake3 spends 75% of its time within the graphics driver.
I've can't speak for graphic driver writers, but couldn't some concurrency be achieved within drivers?
Kashif
However I think games and graphic drivers have not been tuned for SMP primarily because hardly anyone has such systems. And moreso - Windows *for home* was Uniprocessor only util Win2k,XP, etc. came along.
However I do believe, given the proliferation of SMP operating systems coupled with SMP systems, developers could find innovative ways to use the second CPU with minimum latency overhead.
Kashif
Well, John Carmack did implement SMP for Quake2 or Quake3(don't remember which one at the moment). But I clearly remember it resulted in a 20-25% performance boost that really helped in heavy firefights.
The Quake2 source is available, but I haven't tested it on my smp rig.
Kashif
WindowMaker on a P133 /w 32MB ram works fine.
Which is why kids love "Nike" logos on their t-shirts.
MySQL does the same thing, no? I don't see people calling MySQL dual-license scheme evil!
"Plus, its easlier to play FPS using a trackball."
In what world? I have a Logitech TrackMan Marble+, and it nearly impossible to keep your "eye" steady or aim properly at a moving target. Part of it has to do that it's a round ball and not a flat 2-d plane like a mouse surface.
BUT the same analogy is if I have the original source called foo.c and produced foo-with-my-changes.c by passing the file through 'patch -p1 changes.diff'.
Whether extra code is added by GCC or patch, makes no difference in the outcome: you have extra code in the final binary for which you must provide the GPL'd source if the binary is distributed.
Makefiles also require proper tabs for inputing rules.
Then men would get the StareToLongAndYouWillGetASlape Desiese!
in other words, it's a high level language, as opposed to being one or two steps above asm.
But as a functional language, Perl lacks structure, but makes up for it's very free form nature. Just today I was converting a query from Perl to C. Perl's version of the query was approx 150 lines. C was close to 1000.
I'm learning Python now, so I can get a high level language with a bit more structure(i.e. datatypes are much more explicit). I'm aware that Perl has objects too, but it seems to me it was never an integral part of the language.
Yes, but they charge you broadband cable price 20% extra for it.
to receive in mail...'cuz the system is using Java!
It all makes sense now...
Windows systems need an administrator every bit as clueful as a UNIX sysadmin if they are to have any reliability at all.
The scope of software systems are the similar, it's the design and implementation that makes them different. Yes, people may hate Windows style or UNIX style of computing. Yet they are both complex software systems...
In a society that gives out credit card numbers as easily as names, it never ceases to amaze me the number of people that assume that their card number has been swiped from their trash
And merchants who fucking print out your WHOLE visa number + expiry date on your "gas bill" deserve to be shot.
I mean, I know my fucking VISA number already. Just put 5555*************** and my name, thank you.
I'm glad 2.5 is working good with you. But I'm experiencing laggy mouse response.
I have RH9 + XD2 under 2.5.75 - when I load a heavy web page(i.e. slashdot news with lotso comments) under my Galeon(or Mozilla) web browser my mouse goes laggy for a bit as the web page loads.
I solved this problem mostly by using Con Kolivas's desktop patch suite under 2.4. I don't know why the laggy mouse, but using the Variable HZ patch helped.