MySQL tends to be faster and have less problems. Again, look at what Slashdot use as a back end:)
Ha! That's exactly what I am experiencing with Slashdot:
when I submit the form it doesn't retuns any response, and it happens sometimes annoyingly often;
simple queries return with annoyingly long waiting time;
instead of the page I expect the page with slashdot logo on it tells me that there is some internal server error;
How would you explain that? Slashdot has been slashdotted? Or wrong backend database? By the way, similar problems I've described here are typical by my observations for weblogs and forums with MySQL on the backend. Those ones with PostgreSQL work much more stable and smooth.
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Another difference is that I have some control over PC, while I have full control over my brain.
I don't see any problems of running those aplications with PostgreSQL DBMS on the backend.
In my personal PostgreSQL experience I worked with a single table as long as about billion of records. Also, I worked with a database total size of which was about 1 TB. It worked fine. Millions committed transactions per day? No problem.
By the way, do you know what DBMS is hosting all.ORG domains? That's right - PostgreSQL.
As for "integration" - PostgreSQL is the most programmable DBMS available today. Even no commercial DBMS can match with it. So, choosing a commercial DBMS for fingerprint lookup is at least stupid.
Any open source RDBMS should suffice.
Now I see - yes, you *ARE* trolling here.
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You gotta train "firewall" (methods of hiding and decepting) properly or your brain is available for being expose not by goverment, but by crackers too.
I don't see any difference with personal computers in this aspect:
You gotta install firewall properly or your PC (or the whole network) is available for being expose by goverments and crackers.
Well, normally people are already doing it: being asked in a form of a sound or a visual text we don't answer immidiately until we think what to answer. How is it different from being asked questions through the "cyborh" device?
For me it's just one more sense, after vision, hearing and others. It's up to me how to use - silly or smart.
Can she load OSX, and the administer (use) it effectively?
I saw people f*cking with OSX, from printing anf file sharing to Shockwave Flash nob-recognized by many web-sites version, to non-recognized file-types to save and so on, to locked/frozen Mac on Flash/Java plugins.
No wonder Macs are spread only among 5% of american PC users who are brain-washed zealots and who can ignore the importance of such problems (grandmother cannot, unless she's a grandma of a zealot too).
Once we see the first cell-modem chip embedded into our heads, there will be no need to have any smart devices being wearable.
Such chips should be implanted into our heads as early as possible (into newborns ideally) in order to train our brains to communicated with Internet "naturally" - means without any other intermeadiate devices.
Also, imagine a Beowulf cluster of us... Wait a minute, would it be called "Matrix"?
That's not a death of PDA. That's a merge of two product lines - PDAs and cell phones. The functionality of PDA is not dying - it's being combined with functionality of the cell phone. In a same way we can pro-claim "the death of non-smart cell phones".
Besides, I doubt that PDAs will merge ONLY with cell phones: PDA functionality is usefull and will be used virtually in all personal devices. And some of those devices will be far away from being called "a cell phone": watches, MP3 players, cameras.
Also, I am sure PDA functionality will expand from wearable devices to... drivable one? I always wanted to have my Palm being built-in to my car dashboard instead of being lost anywahere in my car.
Sometimes I am thinking that this society (civilization in general?) achived the level when we may want some sort of "benchmark laws" requiring that all public comparison of products must be done through some goverment certified tests. Like TPC specification for database comparison.
I know, the idea is as bad as it is good - the bigger corps will have more money to lobby *their* standards and certifications, including benchmark tests. But I still think that there should be a way to reduce a BS in ads.
1. 90% of goverment database applications don't require any big DBMS. The rest might do, but they are typically are a top secret, so we don't know about it either (NSA, CIA, FBI and other Big Brothers).
2. Oracle's leadership is based on a mind inertion, not on real benefits. Among commercial DBMS vendors I can recall few cases when Sybase and DB/2 where more appropriate than Oracle. In many (90%) cases in goverment IT projects the cost/performance ratio of Oracle is way worse than of PostgreSQL.
3. PostgreSQL is never *noticably* inferior to MySql. There are some cases when MySQL can be 5-10% faster - such difference is hard to notice in real life. Most of (in)famouse benchmarks are made by switching off any integrity in MySQL, ignoring that you can switch some integrity off in PostgreSQL too. Well, enough about those myths. Just to add: PostgreSQL is well known as the most programmable DBMS on the market. MySQL cannot beat that either. Neither Oracle or MS SQL.
Conclusion. Sometimes PostgreSQL is considered to do to Oracle in upcoming two-three years exactly the same as Linux to Microsoft Windows - getting the market from it. It doesn't have enough hype for it yet (is it b/c of its BSD license?). But giving it some goverment support - it can get that hype. Let's see.
Until my iMac and AOL grandomther can use Linux, it won't be widely implimented.
Your family might be rich if your grandmother can afford iMac. On the other side, your family is not rich if you grandmother cannot afford any ISP but AOL.
Jokes aside, Linux runs perfectly fine on iMac. The list of distros include:
Gentoo - the fastest one on PPC;
YDL - the specialized on PPC only;
Red Hat - for most of average people it IS the linux;
Debian;
Suse;
Slackware;
As for AOL, yes, no AOL client for Linux yet, but... does AOL still keep 90% of American home ISP market? I guess not - there are many other ISPs (especially broadbands) which are OS neutral, perhaps together they keep upto 50% of american home ISP market. Besides, outside USA, AOL is presented only in Canada (where it may have less than 10% of home ISP market).
I've got myself BSOD on Win2K just after installing update patches. The hardware worked fine before, and it works fine after reinstalling the system. The booting Linux for testing also did not find anything wrong with hardware.
Another several lockups with BSOD were caused by unstable NTFS. I wonder how many more decades Microsoft will deliver that must-already-be-dead filesystem?
Somebody, fix the moderation of the parent properly!
If an advertiser claims their product is "better", they have to be able to prove it in court or face criminal penalties.
That what we need in North America. Now TV here is a BS, b/c all ads are useless and non-informative.
Back to the topic: if i type "windows" in Goggle, why should I watch Microsoft ads? I am looking at glass windows for my house! Google was wrong and French goverment has fixed that.
Well, Zope does a lot of more job comparing to PHP or J2EE. Developing with Zope vs PHP or J2EE is like coding on a PHP or J2EE vs doing it on Assembler. Yes, Zope does for you many usefull things, but there is a price to pay for it - the hardware resource utilization. Zope require more resources than PHP, that's for sure. I would compare Zope by hardware requirements to a low-end Java sever, like Tomcat. Well, it's often smaller and faster than Tomcat on a low bandwidth. But it keeps the performance better with growing sessions/connections, while Tomcat begins to require more resources like mad.
One good news is that Zope is implemented with Python, C and GDB - I think it would work several times slower would ALL THAT ZOPE FUNCTIONALITY be implemented on Java or PHP.
Another good news is that there is ZEO (Zope Enterprise Object) which lets you to have several load-balanced Zope web servers sharing several replicated ZODB instances.
PHP developers can only dream about such functionality as ZEO brings for web-clusters. Well, with Java you can have the same, but the price will be really very high: Java Application Servers will not work (even start) on a hardware you can run Zope (in terms of memory and CPU requirements). And, aside of JBoss, you have to pay gold for the commercial software license.
However, I agree, there is certainly a lack of Zope benchmarks and performance tuning guides and that makes bad for Zope marketing. Personally, I think that this lack of performance documents is a big strategic mistakes of Zope Corporations.
What was the best about Alpha in its time comparing to SPARC, RS6K, HPPA and SGI of the same price? Had it the fastest speed between CPU and RAM? Had it the fastest system bus? Had the fastest float operations? Integer ones? How about TPC? Please advise. If it is dying then we should remember good technological lessons about it, not only bad management decisions.
In a company I worked for, 80% Sun SPARC computers (about 50 machines, from Ultra-10 stations to E4500 server) had at least one hardware failure within two ears. 40% had at least one major (system board, CPU, memory) fatal hardware failure within 1 year.
Now, can any IBM user here on/. give any close numbers? Exactly - it's overprices, underperformed and under-reliable hardware designed specially for the dot-com bubble when no one CTO/CIO/COO cared a shit about a future of his/her startup company and spent money of investors like a toilet paper.
That's why now IBM is going up-up-up, while Sun is going down-down-down. Guess who's next for the HP's collection of Dell and Compaq?
Well what you've done was stupid from the first place: once you've heard the noise you should have asked yourself: what's more important for me, to fix the noise now and void the warranty (and still have the chance to screw the hardware) OR to call Apple first?
Personally, I open and fix a hardware ONLY if I am sure that I will not regret of voiding any warranty (for example, no warrant already).
I thought W3C approval should be enough for Mozilla team to admit that Xforms is the same web standard as (X)HTML and therefore it must be supported by the web-browser without any plugin (natively).
Since when Mozilla SVG builds are missed? I would say that non-plugin-based SVG is the most innovative feature in Mozilla. Dropping it is the worst what can happen to Mozilla today.
Do you suggest that in the computer industry the patent expiration time must a half of time that a typical technological level is obsolete.
That will split any time the patent idea is useful into two half - one for the patent holder and the other for the public.
Let's say, any given technology on the web is out of hype in 18 months. Ok then, 9 months the patent holder can milk the caw, while the other 9 months it's for the public benefits.
This source code is subject to the U.S. Export Administration Regulations and other U.S. law, and may not be exported or re-exported to certain countries (currently Afghanistan (Taliban controlled areas), Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria) or to persons or entities prohibited from receiving U.S. exports (including Denied Parties, entities on the Bureau of Export Administration Entity List, and Specially Designated Nationals).
It doesn't matter that USA army controls 100% of Afganistan and Iraq territories - those poor people still cannot download Mozilla and have to pay money for IE or Opera. Or stay away from Internet.
Slashdot Mirror
Ha! That's exactly what I am experiencing with Slashdot:
- when I submit the form it doesn't retuns any response, and it happens sometimes annoyingly often;
- simple queries return with annoyingly long waiting time;
- instead of the page I expect the page with slashdot logo on it tells me that there is some internal server error;
How would you explain that? Slashdot has been slashdotted? Or wrong backend database? By the way, similar problems I've described here are typical by my observations for weblogs and forums with MySQL on the backend. Those ones with PostgreSQL work much more stable and smooth.Another difference is that I have some control over PC, while I have full control over my brain.
In my personal PostgreSQL experience I worked with a single table as long as about billion of records. Also, I worked with a database total size of which was about 1 TB. It worked fine. Millions committed transactions per day? No problem.
By the way, do you know what DBMS is hosting all .ORG domains? That's right - PostgreSQL.
As for "integration" - PostgreSQL is the most programmable DBMS available today. Even no commercial DBMS can match with it. So, choosing a commercial DBMS for fingerprint lookup is at least stupid.
Any open source RDBMS should suffice.
Now I see - yes, you *ARE* trolling here.
I don't see any difference with personal computers in this aspect:
You gotta install firewall properly or your PC (or the whole network) is available for being expose by goverments and crackers.
Well, normally people are already doing it: being asked in a form of a sound or a visual text we don't answer immidiately until we think what to answer. How is it different from being asked questions through the "cyborh" device?
For me it's just one more sense, after vision, hearing and others. It's up to me how to use - silly or smart.
I saw people f*cking with OSX, from printing anf file sharing to Shockwave Flash nob-recognized by many web-sites version, to non-recognized file-types to save and so on, to locked/frozen Mac on Flash/Java plugins.
No wonder Macs are spread only among 5% of american PC users who are brain-washed zealots and who can ignore the importance of such problems (grandmother cannot, unless she's a grandma of a zealot too).
Such chips should be implanted into our heads as early as possible (into newborns ideally) in order to train our brains to communicated with Internet "naturally" - means without any other intermeadiate devices.
Also, imagine a Beowulf cluster of us... Wait a minute, would it be called "Matrix"?
Besides, I doubt that PDAs will merge ONLY with cell phones: PDA functionality is usefull and will be used virtually in all personal devices. And some of those devices will be far away from being called "a cell phone": watches, MP3 players, cameras.
Also, I am sure PDA functionality will expand from wearable devices to... drivable one? I always wanted to have my Palm being built-in to my car dashboard instead of being lost anywahere in my car.
I know, the idea is as bad as it is good - the bigger corps will have more money to lobby *their* standards and certifications, including benchmark tests. But I still think that there should be a way to reduce a BS in ads.
1. 90% of goverment database applications don't require any big DBMS. The rest might do, but they are typically are a top secret, so we don't know about it either (NSA, CIA, FBI and other Big Brothers).
2. Oracle's leadership is based on a mind inertion, not on real benefits. Among commercial DBMS vendors I can recall few cases when Sybase and DB/2 where more appropriate than Oracle. In many (90%) cases in goverment IT projects the cost/performance ratio of Oracle is way worse than of PostgreSQL.
3. PostgreSQL is never *noticably* inferior to MySql. There are some cases when MySQL can be 5-10% faster - such difference is hard to notice in real life. Most of (in)famouse benchmarks are made by switching off any integrity in MySQL, ignoring that you can switch some integrity off in PostgreSQL too. Well, enough about those myths. Just to add: PostgreSQL is well known as the most programmable DBMS on the market. MySQL cannot beat that either. Neither Oracle or MS SQL.
Conclusion. Sometimes PostgreSQL is considered to do to Oracle in upcoming two-three years exactly the same as Linux to Microsoft Windows - getting the market from it. It doesn't have enough hype for it yet (is it b/c of its BSD license?). But giving it some goverment support - it can get that hype. Let's see.
Your family might be rich if your grandmother can afford iMac. On the other side, your family is not rich if you grandmother cannot afford any ISP but AOL.
Jokes aside, Linux runs perfectly fine on iMac. The list of distros include:
- Gentoo - the fastest one on PPC;
- YDL - the specialized on PPC only;
- Red Hat - for most of average people it IS the linux;
- Debian;
- Suse;
- Slackware;
As for AOL, yes, no AOL client for Linux yet, but... does AOL still keep 90% of American home ISP market? I guess not - there are many other ISPs (especially broadbands) which are OS neutral, perhaps together they keep upto 50% of american home ISP market. Besides, outside USA, AOL is presented only in Canada (where it may have less than 10% of home ISP market).Another several lockups with BSOD were caused by unstable NTFS. I wonder how many more decades Microsoft will deliver that must-already-be-dead filesystem?
Somebody, fix the moderation of the parent properly!
That what we need in North America. Now TV here is a BS, b/c all ads are useless and non-informative.
Back to the topic: if i type "windows" in Goggle, why should I watch Microsoft ads? I am looking at glass windows for my house! Google was wrong and French goverment has fixed that.
Go France!
One good news is that Zope is implemented with Python, C and GDB - I think it would work several times slower would ALL THAT ZOPE FUNCTIONALITY be implemented on Java or PHP.
Another good news is that there is ZEO (Zope Enterprise Object) which lets you to have several load-balanced Zope web servers sharing several replicated ZODB instances.
PHP developers can only dream about such functionality as ZEO brings for web-clusters. Well, with Java you can have the same, but the price will be really very high: Java Application Servers will not work (even start) on a hardware you can run Zope (in terms of memory and CPU requirements). And, aside of JBoss, you have to pay gold for the commercial software license.
However, I agree, there is certainly a lack of Zope benchmarks and performance tuning guides and that makes bad for Zope marketing. Personally, I think that this lack of performance documents is a big strategic mistakes of Zope Corporations.
512MB? No problem. Just stay away from Java and you are fine.
What was the best about Alpha in its time comparing to SPARC, RS6K, HPPA and SGI of the same price? Had it the fastest speed between CPU and RAM? Had it the fastest system bus? Had the fastest float operations? Integer ones? How about TPC? Please advise. If it is dying then we should remember good technological lessons about it, not only bad management decisions.
The problem that the doctor that supposed to fix brains in US goverment has not came yet :(
2. within first two years and first one year after buying a new hardware directly from Sun ...
3. Sun Sparc is overpriced, underperformed and under-reliable hardware...
Now, can any IBM user here on /. give any close numbers? Exactly - it's overprices, underperformed and under-reliable hardware designed specially for the dot-com bubble when no one CTO/CIO/COO cared a shit about a future of his/her startup company and spent money of investors like a toilet paper.
That's why now IBM is going up-up-up, while Sun is going down-down-down. Guess who's next for the HP's collection of Dell and Compaq?
Personally, I open and fix a hardware ONLY if I am sure that I will not regret of voiding any warranty (for example, no warrant already).
I thought W3C approval should be enough for Mozilla team to admit that Xforms is the same web standard as (X)HTML and therefore it must be supported by the web-browser without any plugin (natively).
My favorite quote is another one:
Torvalds, 33, looks like a supply clerk.
Although I wonder, where did he get that impression. Looking at Linus' face I can say a normal human.
Since when Mozilla SVG builds are missed? I would say that non-plugin-based SVG is the most innovative feature in Mozilla. Dropping it is the worst what can happen to Mozilla today.
That will split any time the patent idea is useful into two half - one for the patent holder and the other for the public.
Let's say, any given technology on the web is out of hype in 18 months. Ok then, 9 months the patent holder can milk the caw, while the other 9 months it's for the public benefits.
It doesn't matter that USA army controls 100% of Afganistan and Iraq territories - those poor people still cannot download Mozilla and have to pay money for IE or Opera. Or stay away from Internet.
That's what they call a liberation!