200K tps? Bet that's just in testing - how many million users are you catering for?
The only possible use I can think of for an app that needs to work that fast is something like data capture from physics experiments.
If you're doing that, then flat files are better, but for real transactional stuff, a well indexed relational DB (yes - even M$ SQL Server!) will piss on flat file systems.
I except Btrieve, of course - I've programmed for it in the past, and it was (on Netware) fast as fuck, even on a 386;-).
The real reason for using a mainframe is stability - a robust bit of hardware running a robust OS is miles better than a glorified consumer OS running on junk.
Having said that, I run a system based on Windoze NT 4, with a small SAN, that has had around 5 hours downtime in the last 3 years - today was the first time in 38 months that we took the SAN down (the suppliers were amazed).
Keep up with skewl, but remember to do some proper work later in life.
I'm impressed, but personally I prefer 'The Aleph' - the idea that a single point could contain all the information in the universe is just too delicious to ignore.
Seriously, I guess it's because it's a prototype and they need somewhere to house the control circuits that they won't have optimised / minaturised yet.
I'd imagine that on a production model, the control circuitry could be at the back, and a minimal bezel used to allow you to construct your desired wall of 20" monitors.
I thought you hated when americans try to force their ideals on the rest of the world?
Yes, we do. Any problems with that, you colonial fuckwit?
It's OK to circumvent another countries censorship laws, but it's not ok to try to remove a corrupt government that tortures and abuses it's people, or is hostile to neighbouring countries?
Yes - circumventing censorship laws tends not to kill lots of civilians, whereas forcible regime change is a little messy (you Yanks should know - you're nearly as good at it as we once were).
All human rights are worth defending - my definition of human rights doesn't happen to include your spurious "Right to look at kiddie porn".
Look, if you think we have no right in another countries affairs, stick by that. If $COUNTRY wants to block $SPEECH, then it's their business.
Yes - you have no rights in another country's affairs, but that shouldn't stop you researching and criticising, if that's your bag.
It's fucking dickheads like you that give libertarianism and conservatism a bad name.
It is my considered opinion that a villein of your status is likely to have to investigate at least one of the above words, and I look forward to your utterly authoritative response.
Thanks for all you've done for network security over the last few years - us poor mortals have to rely on proper smart guys like you for the real work.
This is no bull - you have done as much for network security as anyone that has ever written a firewall, and more than most.
True - you could have been a real bastard, and redirected port 80 and DNS requests to your own mirror, but there's always a dialup if you look far enough...
Moral - if I , was at a conference dedicated to security, I'd take nothing for granted.
But, as they say round here, "there's nowt so queer as folks."
I have a sign, that I hang over my chair when busy concentrating on a bit of coding.
The text?
FUCK OFF, I'M BUSY!
It saves me having to tell co-workers to fuck off personally, since that has occasionally resulted in having to have a stand-up row with some arse of a manager 'cause I upset one of his precious staff.
The corollary? When the sign's not up, people know I'm approachable. Can't say fairer than that, can I?
As a percentage, though, there are a lot more competent women out there than blokes - I have been asked stupid questions by loads more guys than gals, even when you take the smaller number of gals into account.
If you're going to flame, at least have the decency to log in, asshole...
I was going to moderate on this discussion, until I read your post and some of the lame and offensive responses it generated.
Having managed both men and women (and after a while, vowing never to do it again - I'm better at doing than telling), I know how easily a bad working environment (sexism, bullying, inappropriate assignment of work) can adversely affect women far more than men.
I've always found that (in general) women respond at least as well to technical challenges as their male colleagues, and are far more receptive to constructive criticism and positive help.
It looks like you had a shit deal at MS, but I hope you aren't put off the tech arena by that - if you were good enough to be taken on at Redmond, you're likely a far better programmer than I, and probably a lot more personable.
As Robert Zimmerman once said - "keep a good head, and always carry a lightbulb"
P.S. Don't be offended by the sig - it's a peculiarly British sense of humour...
AC - post as yourself if you're going to be a complete fscking jerk.
I was going to moderate on this post, but your comment really pissed me off. How can you expect anyone to develop as a 20-22 year old if you just give them shit to do all day? Having managed men as well as women, I have always found that you get more out of everyone by challenging them, and that women tend not to crack under technical pressures, but are very easily put off by bullying and sexist attitudes.
You, sir, are a fucking moron, and a sexist pig to boot.
Phoenix: BIOS boots software in special HDD partition - effectively a LILO in BIOS
Intel: BIOS boots software on HDD which then boots OS.
It's like comparing apples and, er... apples. Personally, I'd prefer the stuff in a PROM, like some real computers have had for a while now (ah... the joys of a Sparc 5...).
The futility of putting essential parts of the computer architecture (essential to the OS, that is) on a semi-disposable item such as a HDD is staggering.
This stuff *isn't* really in the BIOS - it's Phoenix selling the idea of having a LILO in BIOS so an OEM can install Phoenix's own software on the HDD (read: boot device).
This is no different in essence from hitting F10 on a (properly installed) Compaq server or WS - boot to different partition, run OS of choice.
It's a load of marketing flim-flam, designed to confuse the easily muddled.
Slashdot Mirror
Thought not...
200K tps? Bet that's just in testing - how many million users are you catering for?
The only possible use I can think of for an app that needs to work that fast is something like data capture from physics experiments.
If you're doing that, then flat files are better, but for real transactional stuff, a well indexed relational DB (yes - even M$ SQL Server!) will piss on flat file systems.
I except Btrieve, of course - I've programmed for it in the past, and it was (on Netware) fast as fuck, even on a 386 ;-).
The real reason for using a mainframe is stability - a robust bit of hardware running a robust OS is miles better than a glorified consumer OS running on junk.
Having said that, I run a system based on Windoze NT 4, with a small SAN, that has had around 5 hours downtime in the last 3 years - today was the first time in 38 months that we took the SAN down (the suppliers were amazed).
Keep up with skewl, but remember to do some proper work later in life.
A Slashdotter that has read Borges!
I'm impressed, but personally I prefer 'The Aleph' - the idea that a single point could contain all the information in the universe is just too delicious to ignore.
And anyone who can come up with a sentence like
How hard it is, not to think of a tiger.
has to have been a true genius.
It'll be cheaper than bidding against them for satellite time....
Will ye look at the bezels on that!!!
Seriously, I guess it's because it's a prototype and they need somewhere to house the control circuits that they won't have optimised / minaturised yet.
I'd imagine that on a production model, the control circuitry could be at the back, and a minimal bezel used to allow you to construct your desired wall of 20" monitors.
Hell, it took me years to stop missing the sound of the teletype!
Yes, we do. Any problems with that, you colonial fuckwit?
It's OK to circumvent another countries censorship laws, but it's not ok to try to remove a corrupt government that tortures and abuses it's people, or is hostile to neighbouring countries?
Yes - circumventing censorship laws tends not to kill lots of civilians, whereas forcible regime change is a little messy (you Yanks should know - you're nearly as good at it as we once were).
All human rights are worth defending - my definition of human rights doesn't happen to include your spurious "Right to look at kiddie porn".
Look, if you think we have no right in another countries affairs, stick by that. If $COUNTRY wants to block $SPEECH, then it's their business.
Yes - you have no rights in another country's affairs, but that shouldn't stop you researching and criticising, if that's your bag.
It's fucking dickheads like you that give libertarianism and conservatism a bad name.
Back to the trolling
Didn't notice you'd left...
HAL's /etc/services -
21 ftp
25 smtp
53 dns
80 http
137 my ass
Damn - that M$ sure stinks....
DOS a country?
You may DOS a couple of proxies, but only countries with minimal connectivity would be DOS'd by a few portscans.
Besides, it's Foutes les Francais - les singes qui mangent fromage et surrendent...
Germany!
Where did they get the anthrax?
If they did, then it's the same as feeding it to them "on a platter".
How does it take M$ 5 days to do what these open source hippies can do in a day?
It is my considered opinion that a villein of your status is likely to have to investigate at least one of the above words, and I look forward to your utterly authoritative response.
Thanks for all you've done for network security over the last few years - us poor mortals have to rely on proper smart guys like you for the real work.
This is no bull - you have done as much for network security as anyone that has ever written a firewall, and more than most.
I say again - respect! and big ups to Fyodor!!!!!
True - you could have been a real bastard, and redirected port 80 and DNS requests to your own mirror, but there's always a dialup if you look far enough...
Moral - if I , was at a conference dedicated to security, I'd take nothing for granted.
But, as they say round here, "there's nowt so queer as folks."
The text?
FUCK OFF, I'M BUSY!
It saves me having to tell co-workers to fuck off personally, since that has occasionally resulted in having to have a stand-up row with some arse of a manager 'cause I upset one of his precious staff.
The corollary? When the sign's not up, people know I'm approachable. Can't say fairer than that, can I?
No - all it does when one particular culprit in our organisation does it is PISS ME OFF.
Malcolm - you know who you are...
As a percentage, though, there are a lot more competent women out there than blokes - I have been asked stupid questions by loads more guys than gals, even when you take the smaller number of gals into account.
If you're going to flame, at least have the decency to log in, asshole...
Having managed both men and women (and after a while, vowing never to do it again - I'm better at doing than telling), I know how easily a bad working environment (sexism, bullying, inappropriate assignment of work) can adversely affect women far more than men.
I've always found that (in general) women respond at least as well to technical challenges as their male colleagues, and are far more receptive to constructive criticism and positive help.
It looks like you had a shit deal at MS, but I hope you aren't put off the tech arena by that - if you were good enough to be taken on at Redmond, you're likely a far better programmer than I, and probably a lot more personable.
As Robert Zimmerman once said - "keep a good head, and always carry a lightbulb"
P.S. Don't be offended by the sig - it's a peculiarly British sense of humour...
I was going to moderate on this post, but your comment really pissed me off. How can you expect anyone to develop as a 20-22 year old if you just give them shit to do all day? Having managed men as well as women, I have always found that you get more out of everyone by challenging them, and that women tend not to crack under technical pressures, but are very easily put off by bullying and sexist attitudes.
You, sir, are a fucking moron, and a sexist pig to boot.
Don't know who modded this as flamebait - I thought it funny as fuck, myself...
Telecoms guy: Terabytes and terabytes, Bertie - it'll take some storage
Bertie: But see - if it's got fecking terror bytes in it, it must be worth analysing!
Intel: BIOS boots software on HDD which then boots OS.
It's like comparing apples and, er... apples.
Personally, I'd prefer the stuff in a PROM, like some real computers have had for a while now (ah... the joys of a Sparc 5...).
The futility of putting essential parts of the computer architecture (essential to the OS, that is) on a semi-disposable item such as a HDD is staggering.
This stuff *isn't* really in the BIOS - it's Phoenix selling the idea of having a LILO in BIOS so an OEM can install Phoenix's own software on the HDD (read: boot device).
This is no different in essence from hitting F10 on a (properly installed) Compaq server or WS - boot to different partition, run OS of choice.
It's a load of marketing flim-flam, designed to confuse the easily muddled.