ACID problems? Well, getting transaction support on one machine was enough of a hassle. It was just a bitch and constant swearing session. It could be done, but in the end the performance wasn't where it should be - adding servers to the cluster didn't scale it up as fast as it should have, IMO.
I realize that stuff has improved in the year since I've seriously looked at it, but I'm doubtful it's reached the level of Oracle or SQL Server.
OSS now has a viable alternative to *just about* any commercial enterprise software out there.
There are a lot of great OSS products out there, it's just that none of them are enterprise class database engines. Watch 404 messages from websites for telling clues - mysql always fails before apache.
Do anyone have experiences with clusters of MySQL , Postgres-R, C-JDBC or other solutions? How does it compare to commercial products?
They don't compare to commercial products. I know it isn't what you want to hear, and there are hundreds of kids here to tell you different, but they just dont compare. Those kids database experience doesn't extend past an address book.
Even if you manage to get them to technically keep up, transaction wise, to Oracle or SQL Server, the ACID enforcement isn't there, the syntaxes are kludgy. Gack.
My company ships products with SQL Server or Oracle as the back end. I've tried to put together an OSS solution so I could impress the big boss with millions of bucks of saved license fees. They just aren't anywhere close IMO.
Run a SQL Server farm on the back end if you cant afford an Oracle license. Don't be an OSS idealogue in the business world, you end up unemployed.
Now, if he had smacked about SIDplayer over a 300 baud modem, remember the old original commodore ones where you dialed up with the regular phone then set the handset down into the microphone/speaker cradle?
I got a Neo Geo Pocket Color and Flash Linker set with 64mbit flash cart for about 80 bucks.
The few games that came out for it are well worth it. The design of the unit is amazing, the full NeoGeo thumbstick (same as on the Neo Geo pads) is fabulous, accurate, and nice to see on a handheld.
If there was ever a handheld which deserved to beat the crap out of gameboy, it was NGP.
Having to dismantle the thing to replace the cards sounds super lame. Do you have to take the battery cover off a gameboy, remove the batteries, switch game, replace batteries, replace cover? No, because that would be retarded.
My Kyocera 7135 phone with built-in PalmOS has a nice side-loading SD slot, so what's the dilly-o with Nokia?
Those SD cards aren't just small and easy to lose, they break realllllly easily.
If they make it to nGage Advance, it'll have a handy side-loading slot, that autodetects the cartridge without powering off, just like my phone does now.
(Btw, this kyocera phone is a buggy pile of shit - it gets "fatal exceptions" when it rings and the battery cant last 24 hours in a stretch, lest anyone think I'm praising it)
When gameplay mattered? Dude, there's a million dogshit games for NES and SNES and you know it. The same companies that made great games then still make 'em today, for the most part. Folks like Rare, Nintendo, Capcom, Sega..
The gameboy owns the handheld world. It is nintendos domain.
Better specs have not won the fight. The Neo Geo Pocket, TurboGrafx Xpress, Sega Game Gear and Nomad, Lynx, Game.com.
Many have come, many have failed.
Playstation Portable sounds like it'll be the first handheld to give the gameboy line a run for it's money. But I'm not banking on that either.
Nintendo promised some amazing new revolutionary whizamajig for next year. A successor to the GBA? A successor to gamecube? Who knows...
But, my bet is a portable gamecube. This is purely speculation, but it makes sense. The miniDVD format for GCN games has always been a bit of an enigmah - until you think about a handheld device... You could squish a gamecube into something handheld for the price of an nGage..
Maybe I'm dreaming, but hot damn that'd rock. Even if it was a different console, but they had "hybrid" games, ie, one version plays on the gamecube, a "lighter" version for it's portable sibling..
Anyhow.
Woe be to all ye who enter Nintendo's sacred grounds.
Yeah, every time I've seen a windows machine hacked, it's been through an application. I've never had anyone exploit the kernel.
Linux fans have the luxury of disregarding everything but the kernel as "third party", but if it all ships together on that RedHat or Gentoo CD, it's all the same platform.
A vulnerability in linux/apache is analagous to a vulnerability in IIS/Windows, and a vulnerability in MySQL is analagous to a flaw in SQL Server.
The lesson is - big, complicated software projects will have bugs and flaws. No matter whether its commercial, free or Free.
Linux hacked = security is the responsibility of the admin!
Just look at all the backpedalling and but.. but... but..
Linux is not the super-secure platform you think it is. Not only because it's practically impossible to "not have holes in the code", but because it's a convoluded mess to try and configure.
Is my linux based router/gateway secure? I think so, but there are so many goddamn.conf files and convoluded iptables rules (4 of them to forward a port?!) that I can't really be certain.
I'm sure someone will tell you how super-fantastic nVidia's drivers are and how mega-gay ATI's are. (In my experience it's been exactly the opposite, but such is life)
Just like someone will no doubt tell me how rootin' tootin' fantastic OSX is, and how it's worth a $2000 difference in price.
I still say it's like the girls in high school who wanted to volunteer at the local pet hospital.
They all loved cuddling the newborn puppies, but weren't thrilled about cleaning up after the Great Dane with explosive diarreah.
There's a lot of non-glamourous, tedious but still necessary work to be done.
This is why linux as a desktop OS is still a bit of a joke, whereas MacOSX (a commercial, do yer job or get fired effot) came from BSD at the command of Jobs.
Hey if I was crossing the road, listening to my KICK ASS WIFI IPOD and was about to get flattened by a car, I sure hope I get pelted with some rocks.
But considering the headers are faked, it's like pelting a crowd of bystanders who aren't even near the road with rocks, and repainting the yellow center line so the car will hit them, a la Bugs Bunny.
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It's different because if I go to a command prompt, type ping www.domainthatdoesntexist.com, I'll get a DNS error.
Now I'll get a ping from some verisign server?
There's more to the internet than the web.
You think some semi-obscure web toon is bad?
What about all the kids in school doing a paper on the white house?
Though looking at it now, they toned down the front page at least. The got a lot of press about it.
ACID problems? Well, getting transaction support on one machine was enough of a hassle. It was just a bitch and constant swearing session. It could be done, but in the end the performance wasn't where it should be - adding servers to the cluster didn't scale it up as fast as it should have, IMO.
I realize that stuff has improved in the year since I've seriously looked at it, but I'm doubtful it's reached the level of Oracle or SQL Server.
OSS now has a viable alternative to *just about* any commercial enterprise software out there.
There are a lot of great OSS products out there, it's just that none of them are enterprise class database engines. Watch 404 messages from websites for telling clues - mysql always fails before apache.
Everytime I hear that song I totally think about that passed out broad covered in vomit.
Do anyone have experiences with clusters of MySQL , Postgres-R, C-JDBC or other solutions? How does it compare to commercial products?
They don't compare to commercial products. I know it isn't what you want to hear, and there are hundreds of kids here to tell you different, but they just dont compare. Those kids database experience doesn't extend past an address book.
Even if you manage to get them to technically keep up, transaction wise, to Oracle or SQL Server, the ACID enforcement isn't there, the syntaxes are kludgy. Gack.
My company ships products with SQL Server or Oracle as the back end. I've tried to put together an OSS solution so I could impress the big boss with millions of bucks of saved license fees. They just aren't anywhere close IMO.
Run a SQL Server farm on the back end if you cant afford an Oracle license. Don't be an OSS idealogue in the business world, you end up unemployed.
Can I sit here?
What's yer favorite kind of mouse? I like logitech x420 myself!
Hey that sandwich looks good! Do you like cheese? I like cheese!
Hey I'm throwing a lan party this saturday, it'd be great if you could.....
hey where are you going?
OK catch ya later dudes!
Seriously.
It doesn't get any more pathetic than a bunch of nimrods discussing mouse balls.
What's your favorite current or past mouse?
FUCK OFF!
Ok, that was mean
But who else pictured some annoying little keener intent on making small talk?
BTW, the Koala pad for the C64 kicked ass. It wasn't no mouse. We didn't want nor need no stinkin mouse.
And there w'aint no midi files in them days.
Now, if he had smacked about SIDplayer over a 300 baud modem, remember the old original commodore ones where you dialed up with the regular phone then set the handset down into the microphone/speaker cradle?
I got a Neo Geo Pocket Color and Flash Linker set with 64mbit flash cart for about 80 bucks.
The few games that came out for it are well worth it. The design of the unit is amazing, the full NeoGeo thumbstick (same as on the Neo Geo pads) is fabulous, accurate, and nice to see on a handheld.
If there was ever a handheld which deserved to beat the crap out of gameboy, it was NGP.
*sniff* poor poor SNK
Having to dismantle the thing to replace the cards sounds super lame. Do you have to take the battery cover off a gameboy, remove the batteries, switch game, replace batteries, replace cover? No, because that would be retarded.
My Kyocera 7135 phone with built-in PalmOS has a nice side-loading SD slot, so what's the dilly-o with Nokia?
Those SD cards aren't just small and easy to lose, they break realllllly easily.
If they make it to nGage Advance, it'll have a handy side-loading slot, that autodetects the cartridge without powering off, just like my phone does now.
(Btw, this kyocera phone is a buggy pile of shit - it gets "fatal exceptions" when it rings and the battery cant last 24 hours in a stretch, lest anyone think I'm praising it)
When gameplay mattered? Dude, there's a million dogshit games for NES and SNES and you know it. The same companies that made great games then still make 'em today, for the most part. Folks like Rare, Nintendo, Capcom, Sega..
But the point is nGage looks pretty dumb to me.
The gameboy owns the handheld world. It is nintendos domain.
Better specs have not won the fight. The Neo Geo Pocket, TurboGrafx Xpress, Sega Game Gear and Nomad, Lynx, Game.com.
Many have come, many have failed.
Playstation Portable sounds like it'll be the first handheld to give the gameboy line a run for it's money. But I'm not banking on that either.
Nintendo promised some amazing new revolutionary whizamajig for next year. A successor to the GBA? A successor to gamecube? Who knows...
But, my bet is a portable gamecube. This is purely speculation, but it makes sense. The miniDVD format for GCN games has always been a bit of an enigmah - until you think about a handheld device... You could squish a gamecube into something handheld for the price of an nGage..
Maybe I'm dreaming, but hot damn that'd rock. Even if it was a different console, but they had "hybrid" games, ie, one version plays on the gamecube, a "lighter" version for it's portable sibling..
Anyhow.
Woe be to all ye who enter Nintendo's sacred grounds.
More so than a gameboy does now?
Yeah, every time I've seen a windows machine hacked, it's been through an application. I've never had anyone exploit the kernel.
Linux fans have the luxury of disregarding everything but the kernel as "third party", but if it all ships together on that RedHat or Gentoo CD, it's all the same platform.
A vulnerability in linux/apache is analagous to a vulnerability in IIS/Windows, and a vulnerability in MySQL is analagous to a flaw in SQL Server.
The lesson is - big, complicated software projects will have bugs and flaws. No matter whether its commercial, free or Free.
Yes, but it's a good chance to point out the hypocrisy.
Anyone mentioning that worms and viruses are targetted at windows because thats what 90% of desktops run, is modded down as troll or flamebait.
Windows hacked = windoze is ghey!
.conf files and convoluded iptables rules (4 of them to forward a port?!) that I can't really be certain.
Linux hacked = security is the responsibility of the admin!
Just look at all the backpedalling and but.. but... but..
Linux is not the super-secure platform you think it is. Not only because it's practically impossible to "not have holes in the code", but because it's a convoluded mess to try and configure.
Is my linux based router/gateway secure? I think so, but there are so many goddamn
People like Macs for the same reason.
Call them fans/zealots/cheerleaders, whatever.
I'm sure someone will tell you how super-fantastic nVidia's drivers are and how mega-gay ATI's are. (In my experience it's been exactly the opposite, but such is life)
Just like someone will no doubt tell me how rootin' tootin' fantastic OSX is, and how it's worth a $2000 difference in price.
I still say it's like the girls in high school who wanted to volunteer at the local pet hospital.
They all loved cuddling the newborn puppies, but weren't thrilled about cleaning up after the Great Dane with explosive diarreah.
There's a lot of non-glamourous, tedious but still necessary work to be done.
This is why linux as a desktop OS is still a bit of a joke, whereas MacOSX (a commercial, do yer job or get fired effot) came from BSD at the command of Jobs.
Making a PVR with that is impossible, no tuner!
Two USB ports on the front. You could conceivably add a tuner, though supporting it under lunix is a pipe dream.
How about spending more time fixing bugs in actual useful and popular software for linux instead?
And thus it is with Open Source. Fixing bugs and maintaining old code is booooring. Noone wants to do it, so noone will. Same with documentation.
If the whole world ran on a volunteer basis, there'd be no janitors. Who'd clean up all the shit?
Umm
Gentoo on PS2 = mod chip, complete access to the hardware, and not buying the kit.
Yeah, you can get Sony's kit. But it's extremely crippled so far as accessing the hardware.
Hey if I was crossing the road, listening to my KICK ASS WIFI IPOD and was about to get flattened by a car, I sure hope I get pelted with some rocks.
But considering the headers are faked, it's like pelting a crowd of bystanders who aren't even near the road with rocks, and repainting the yellow center line so the car will hit them, a la Bugs Bunny.
Maybe you lunix fags could stop making heroes out of hackers, and start to look at them as the bottom feeding dregs that they are.
Maybe if it wasn't so hip and trendy to h4x0r j00r b0x0r with your m4d sk1llz0rz, this type of nonsense would fade away into obscurity.
I'd rather they let them through than to know my ISP is sniffing all my incoming/outgoing mail.
But that's just me.
we know that
let us return to racist rants about how Indians will sabotage your company.