As usual, little of MySQL, as well as most other DBMSs, properly supports the relational model, according to Chris Date and others.
It's nice to see MySQL getting stuff other DBMSs have had for years, like triggers and stored procedures, but for uses other than a replacement for file managers like Access and for DB-backed Web sites, go with PostgreSQL or Firebird or others with a little more power. Messing with database designs for mission-critical needs can land you in hot water fast with a product that doesn't support even the basics adequately.
"Hell, we can't have an City Council election w/o someone claiming "money laundering" or "voter fraud""
That's because in Texas you can't HAVE any kind of election without money laundering and voter fraud. Next to Chicago, New York and New Jersey (and maybe California and Florida), Texas is the most corrupt state in the Union.
I'm sure you've heard the joke about Lyndon Johnson (and no doubt used on numerous other occasions and politicos) where a little girl is crying and someone asks her why, she says "My grandfather who's been dead for twenty years came back to vote for Johnson, but didn't come to see me!"
First, as far as I know, most of the Bush National Guard stuff was legit, except for one (probably Karl Rove-designed) setup that stupid Rather fell for.
As for Delay doing nothing wrong, pardon me while I laugh.
The issue with mentioning Democrats is that Delay accused Earl of ONLY prosecuting Republicans. He also accused Earl of never showing up for work, which is denied by people who know him, apparently. I don't live there or care anyway, so who knows, but it's cheap shots like that that make Delay universally despised.
That and the fact that Delay plays the Jesus card every time he gets caught with his hand in the till - or somebody known to a lobbyist he's friends with turns up dead.
He's a fucking crooked politician with his head up Ariel Sharon's ass and he needs to be in prison.
Leftwing conspiracies? How about the thousands of rightwingnuts? How many times have you heard the words "rightwing conspiracy theories" in the last thirty years?
Do Democrats belong to the John Birch Society? I don't think so.
By the way, I'm NOT a Democrat, so bringing up Democrats as a reason to excuse Republicans is irrelevant.
Maybe. Cheney might be in the dock, too, according to Stephanopolous's hint recently.
Might be politicially infeasible to pardon, too, depending on how things go. Not that it would stop most of the bozos in line for the job. The problem is that the rumor is that it's not the Plame outing that's at stake - that would be a relatively minor matter that could be pardoned. Rumor has it that the prosecutor is after the entire "criminal conspiracy" to lie the country into the Iraq war, or some portion thereof that he might be able to prove. That's a lot more serious.
And without a kernel, the GNU tools are (mostly) useless.
And since GNU means GNU is Not Unix, and the whole point of the GNU project was to produce an OS - a COMPLETE OS WITH KERNEL - which they utterly failed to do over twenty years until some Finnish grad student did it (probably not even using their tools, for all I know)...
In other words, you've lost that battle, so fuck off.
Linux is Linux and the rest of the OS and distro is by whoever supplied it - including KDE, GNOME, and fifty thousand other tiny little people who don't particularly care if the OS is called Linux or KDE/Linux or GNOME/Linux, or tinylittleutility/Linux.
Oh, well, not that likely, I suppose, given issues about doing this sort of thing over the highly unreliable Net, where to store the documents, etc. Still, if any of this is doable at all, it means trouble for Microsoft.
The prosecutor that Delay is moaning about being "partisan" has pursued most of his cases against politicians against Democratic politicians.
Which makes Delay a fucking liar - big surprise.
The bitch lawyer being discussed has a long history of being in Bush's ass when he needs her to clean up his shit.
She is nominated for one purpose and one purpose only - to pack the Supreme Court with pro-Bush justices so that when he is indicted by the Plame outing prosecutor for criminal conspiracy, he will have some people on the bench to keep him from being sent to prison.
"citing Linux costs as being just over 1/6 the projected cost of a Windows upgrade, while processing doubled."
Every single Linux move I've read about indicates that costs are WAY less than Microsoft and its shills like Enderle and DiDio claim, and that processing power at LEAST doubles.
This is on a par with those companies that move from mainframes to commodity servers - they save MILLIONS and processing power is at least TWO TO FOUR times greater.
Anybody using mainframes for heterogenous processing needs is an idiot. (It might be reasonable for running thousands of copies of a Web server in some cases.)
Anybody using Microsoft is an idiot. Period.
This piece of shit Windows XP I run (along with Mandriva 2005 LE - I need Windows for tech support - but I'm getting real close to killing it anyway) yesterday decided to corrupt its file system so that every time I ran a certain program, it tried to run the MSI installer and install a different program - over and over. Since the MSI installer is "privileged", I couldn't kill its process without being administrator, and I couldn't shut the system down because the installer was in a loop, and I couldn't uninstall the program being installed because it was being installed continuously, and so on and so on.
A perfect storm of shitty Windows design...
I had to hit the power button, boot up, go in as root, run the disk checker to fix the corruption, then uninstall the two programs involved and reinstall them.
Fucking Microsoft crap... There isn't a day goes by without some bullshit like this happening.
I thought Bruce Schneier was the security expert and Perens the OSS advocate. I just looked up Bruce Perens' bio and there's nothing in there about security.
Jesus! It would have been nice if the site had said yesterday, "Oh, by the way! We're switching the site to CSS tomorrow and unless you change your Light Mode, you're customized homepage willl go away!"
How hard is that?
NOW my complaint is - I don't like my selections on the right side of the page! Guess I'll have to hack the CSS...
Thanks again for your help - I'd never have figured it out on my own, since the Preferences Light Mode description doesn't indicate anything related to the issue.
WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE REST OF MY CATEGORIES ON THE FRONT PAGE??????
I don't come here just to read the top ten articles, you morons!
There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING on this page to tell me how to get Boing Boing and the rest BACK onto my customized page! I go to Preferences and there's NOTHING!
You are absolute fucking IDIOTS!
Oh, well, I was wasting a lot of time here anyway! Adios, Morons!
There were busses, but nobody could leave without being ON a bus going to some place they were not informed where and not allowed to leave that bus even if it passed through a city where they had relatives they could stay with.
Earlier on, even Fox News was having a fit because they were standing at the Convention Center with people sitting on a freeway untouched by the storm, unable to get help, and not allowed to simply cross a nearby bridge into another parish where there was food, water and lights because they were being turned back by a National Guard checkpoint on that bridge. Geraldo Rivera (a major asshole I've never liked or respected) was practically in tears and Shepard Smith was totally bewildered as to why absolutely NO help was being provided to these people for three days - sitting out there in plain view on a freeway and the subject of a national news broadcast!
There are any number of reports of cops firing their guns over the heads of people trying to evacuate into nearby parishes.
There was one case where some people holed up on a freeway were literally ATTACKED by a sheriff who drew his gun, ordered them off the freeway, called in a helicopter to blow down their makeshift shelters, and CONFISCATED THEIR LITTLE FOOD AND WATER!
What the hell do you call that?
I'm not saying the National Guard or any specific unit of that force was necessarily involved in this, but something was seriously out of whack down there, and it wasn't the mayor's fault or the governor's fault alone. As of the moment the governor declared an emergency - which was the day BEFORE the hurricane hit, FEMA was in charge - and FEMA's own plans required them to be in place BEFORE the hurricane hit.
There are numerous reports that one of the FEMA holdups was because Michael Chertoff, the head of DHS, didn't designate Mike Brown, the FEMA head, in charge, as required by law when FEMA was merged with DHS.
Go back over the news reporting of the last couple weeks and see what a mess there was. No amount of excuses or finger pointing at the mayor or governor (however incompetent they may have been as well) excuses the performance of FEMA as run by a Bush-appointed political crony.
Tell me again how Microsoft is so much superior to OpenOffice because people switching to OpenOffice can't find the Office menus, and are too dumb to learn, blah, blah, blah.
Microsoft breaks anything it wants when it wants. Period.
Another Windows shill excuse down the drain. Thanks, Microsoft.
Blaming the Mayor is just the Fed excuse as to why the whole thing turned into a mess.
It's excusing Bush and his politically connected incompetent cronies running FEMA.
Nothing more.
"The levee system was not designed to take a hurricane of this magnitude."
Exactly the point - and the funds to make it so have been slashed for years (including under Democratic administrations, just so you know I'm not a Democrat, either) - and recent appropriations were diverted to Iraq.
Blaming the Mayor is like blaming Giuliani for 9/11. The casualties from failing to evacuate NO properly do not excuse the underlying problems with the levees nor does it excuse the fascist and incompetent response by FEMA.
"from the switching box back to the main station will be fiber.."
Uhm, that's what they call "fiber to the home"...I wasn't assuming the whole house will be wired with fiber and neither is anyone else when FTTH is discussed.
Not all companies offer wireless - and which of the majors doesn't? Who cares about the smaller outfits when discussing regulatory matters?
Cheap minutes? Who offers the plans? They WANT people to switch from landline to wireless because they make more profit there! Are you saying they want people to switch because they DON'T? They just want people to have BOTH? Well, sure they do - and they'd sell you a car, too, if they could - but they can't. Anybody in the cellular business should know it is obvious that once you have a decent cell phone and a decent plan, who needs landline?
If the major companies were subsidized by the government, that makes the landline cash cow even more so. That still doesn't mean they're going to LOSE money if people switch to something else. They're just not going to make as MUCH money - and I still say that is questionable.
The phone companies are NEVER going to lose money (except on dumb investments) - unless wireless from third parties become ubiquitous (which it might).
Hah! Not nearly that easy...even with the right software - which most users probably wouldn't know the name of, how to find it, how to install it, etc.
The same complaints people have about Linux, in fact.
If it's true in one, it's true in the other - or not.
Well, given that the money comes from the Feds...and goes to the Army Corp of Engineers...
OTOH, apparently a lot of money going into Louisiana was siphoned off by corrupt state officials, according to one article I read.
On the second hand, that article could be just more of the Feds blaming the state, like they did with the phoney "didn't call an emergency" crap. In fact, despite the fact that Louisiana has had corrupt officials for decades, I suspect the Feds are blaming the state IN ADVANCE for stealing the billions the Bush cronies plan to steal from the reconstruction effort.
Already the White House aide in charge of drawing up policies for the disbursement of funds for the reconstruction has been indicted for being involved with Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist - and this guy's wife was in charge of the Senate investigation of what went wrong with the FEMA response.
How obvious does it have to get?
People just can't believe how deep and extensive and actually murderous the corruption in the US system actually goes. Everybody has no trouble believing it about the Iraqi government or some other tinpot dictators, but nobody can believe it about their own.
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As usual, little of MySQL, as well as most other DBMSs, properly supports the relational model, according to Chris Date and others.
It's nice to see MySQL getting stuff other DBMSs have had for years, like triggers and stored procedures, but for uses other than a replacement for file managers like Access and for DB-backed Web sites, go with PostgreSQL or Firebird or others with a little more power. Messing with database designs for mission-critical needs can land you in hot water fast with a product that doesn't support even the basics adequately.
"Hell, we can't have an City Council election w/o someone claiming "money laundering" or "voter fraud""
That's because in Texas you can't HAVE any kind of election without money laundering and voter fraud. Next to Chicago, New York and New Jersey (and maybe California and Florida), Texas is the most corrupt state in the Union.
I'm sure you've heard the joke about Lyndon Johnson (and no doubt used on numerous other occasions and politicos) where a little girl is crying and someone asks her why, she says "My grandfather who's been dead for twenty years came back to vote for Johnson, but didn't come to see me!"
First, as far as I know, most of the Bush National Guard stuff was legit, except for one (probably Karl Rove-designed) setup that stupid Rather fell for.
As for Delay doing nothing wrong, pardon me while I laugh.
The issue with mentioning Democrats is that Delay accused Earl of ONLY prosecuting Republicans. He also accused Earl of never showing up for work, which is denied by people who know him, apparently. I don't live there or care anyway, so who knows, but it's cheap shots like that that make Delay universally despised.
That and the fact that Delay plays the Jesus card every time he gets caught with his hand in the till - or somebody known to a lobbyist he's friends with turns up dead.
He's a fucking crooked politician with his head up Ariel Sharon's ass and he needs to be in prison.
Leftwing conspiracies? How about the thousands of rightwingnuts? How many times have you heard the words "rightwing conspiracy theories" in the last thirty years?
Do Democrats belong to the John Birch Society? I don't think so.
By the way, I'm NOT a Democrat, so bringing up Democrats as a reason to excuse Republicans is irrelevant.
Maybe. Cheney might be in the dock, too, according to Stephanopolous's hint recently.
Might be politicially infeasible to pardon, too, depending on how things go. Not that it would stop most of the bozos in line for the job. The problem is that the rumor is that it's not the Plame outing that's at stake - that would be a relatively minor matter that could be pardoned. Rumor has it that the prosecutor is after the entire "criminal conspiracy" to lie the country into the Iraq war, or some portion thereof that he might be able to prove. That's a lot more serious.
And without a kernel, the GNU tools are (mostly) useless.
And since GNU means GNU is Not Unix, and the whole point of the GNU project was to produce an OS - a COMPLETE OS WITH KERNEL - which they utterly failed to do over twenty years until some Finnish grad student did it (probably not even using their tools, for all I know)...
In other words, you've lost that battle, so fuck off.
Linux is Linux and the rest of the OS and distro is by whoever supplied it - including KDE, GNOME, and fifty thousand other tiny little people who don't particularly care if the OS is called Linux or KDE/Linux or GNOME/Linux, or tinylittleutility/Linux.
Only the GNU clowns want support.
If you NEED it, you don't deserve to get it.
Morons.
Oh, well, not that likely, I suppose, given issues about doing this sort of thing over the highly unreliable Net, where to store the documents, etc. Still, if any of this is doable at all, it means trouble for Microsoft.
And that makes this a good day!
Oh, you want clear cut?
The prosecutor that Delay is moaning about being "partisan" has pursued most of his cases against politicians against Democratic politicians.
Which makes Delay a fucking liar - big surprise.
The bitch lawyer being discussed has a long history of being in Bush's ass when he needs her to clean up his shit.
She is nominated for one purpose and one purpose only - to pack the Supreme Court with pro-Bush justices so that when he is indicted by the Plame outing prosecutor for criminal conspiracy, he will have some people on the bench to keep him from being sent to prison.
Period.
Every time I post a comment, I get THIS horseshit:
"No discussion or comments found for this request. To create your own discussion, please use journals."
TRY, please, to get your fucking site working properly.
"citing Linux costs as being just over 1/6 the projected cost of a Windows upgrade, while processing doubled."
Every single Linux move I've read about indicates that costs are WAY less than Microsoft and its shills like Enderle and DiDio claim, and that processing power at LEAST doubles.
This is on a par with those companies that move from mainframes to commodity servers - they save MILLIONS and processing power is at least TWO TO FOUR times greater.
Anybody using mainframes for heterogenous processing needs is an idiot. (It might be reasonable for running thousands of copies of a Web server in some cases.)
Anybody using Microsoft is an idiot. Period.
This piece of shit Windows XP I run (along with Mandriva 2005 LE - I need Windows for tech support - but I'm getting real close to killing it anyway) yesterday decided to corrupt its file system so that every time I ran a certain program, it tried to run the MSI installer and install a different program - over and over. Since the MSI installer is "privileged", I couldn't kill its process without being administrator, and I couldn't shut the system down because the installer was in a loop, and I couldn't uninstall the program being installed because it was being installed continuously, and so on and so on.
A perfect storm of shitty Windows design...
I had to hit the power button, boot up, go in as root, run the disk checker to fix the corruption, then uninstall the two programs involved and reinstall them.
Fucking Microsoft crap... There isn't a day goes by without some bullshit like this happening.
1. Write book on copyright problems.
2. Put book under Creative Commons License.
3. Put book on P2P systems worldwide.
4. ?????
5. PROFIT!!!
I thought Bruce Schneier was the security expert and Perens the OSS advocate. I just looked up Bruce Perens' bio and there's nothing in there about security.
Obviously some asshole incompetent or worse - a shill paid by Microsoft.
Not even worth reading the article.
Now you know why Windows is a insecure, unreliable, unstable piece of shit that is too complex to use properly.
Big surprise. Only the Windows shills never had a clue.
The REAL point of this article is this: THEY NEVER FOUND THIS OUT BEFORE LAST YEAR!!!
Which means anything they've done over the past year WILL NOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM!
Now you know why Allchin is on the way out. He made the mistake of telling Bill something Bill didn't want to hear.
Which means Microsoft will go right back to producing spaghetti code as soon as possible.
Which is exactly what I've said a dozen times: until Bill Gates gets hit by a truck, MICROSOFT WILL NOT CHANGE!
Read my lips, morons.
As another, more kindly individual has resolved my problem, may I say to you:
Fuck off, moron.
And the "site owner" can fuck it up his ass as well for being too STUPID to warn people that Light Mode can turn off the customized homepage...
THANK YOU!
Finally, someone with a brain!
That's a bigger change than CSS!
Jesus! It would have been nice if the site had said yesterday, "Oh, by the way! We're switching the site to CSS tomorrow and unless you change your Light Mode, you're customized homepage willl go away!"
How hard is that?
NOW my complaint is - I don't like my selections on the right side of the page! Guess I'll have to hack the CSS...
Thanks again for your help - I'd never have figured it out on my own, since the Preferences Light Mode description doesn't indicate anything related to the issue.
Where is the rest of my customized homepage????
Am I the ONLY fucking person on
I get -1 Flamebait, instead of a fucking answer???
I don't give a rat's ass about the CSS! Where is my connection to the rest of Slashdot?
Jesus Baron von Christ!
WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE REST OF MY CATEGORIES ON THE FRONT PAGE??????
I don't come here just to read the top ten articles, you morons!
There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING on this page to tell me how to get Boing Boing and the rest BACK onto my customized page! I go to Preferences and there's NOTHING!
You are absolute fucking IDIOTS!
Oh, well, I was wasting a lot of time here anyway! Adios, Morons!
There were busses, but nobody could leave without being ON a bus going to some place they were not informed where and not allowed to leave that bus even if it passed through a city where they had relatives they could stay with.
Earlier on, even Fox News was having a fit because they were standing at the Convention Center with people sitting on a freeway untouched by the storm, unable to get help, and not allowed to simply cross a nearby bridge into another parish where there was food, water and lights because they were being turned back by a National Guard checkpoint on that bridge. Geraldo Rivera (a major asshole I've never liked or respected) was practically in tears and Shepard Smith was totally bewildered as to why absolutely NO help was being provided to these people for three days - sitting out there in plain view on a freeway and the subject of a national news broadcast!
There are any number of reports of cops firing their guns over the heads of people trying to evacuate into nearby parishes.
There was one case where some people holed up on a freeway were literally ATTACKED by a sheriff who drew his gun, ordered them off the freeway, called in a helicopter to blow down their makeshift shelters, and CONFISCATED THEIR LITTLE FOOD AND WATER!
What the hell do you call that?
I'm not saying the National Guard or any specific unit of that force was necessarily involved in this, but something was seriously out of whack down there, and it wasn't the mayor's fault or the governor's fault alone. As of the moment the governor declared an emergency - which was the day BEFORE the hurricane hit, FEMA was in charge - and FEMA's own plans required them to be in place BEFORE the hurricane hit.
There are numerous reports that one of the FEMA holdups was because Michael Chertoff, the head of DHS, didn't designate Mike Brown, the FEMA head, in charge, as required by law when FEMA was merged with DHS.
Go back over the news reporting of the last couple weeks and see what a mess there was. No amount of excuses or finger pointing at the mayor or governor (however incompetent they may have been as well) excuses the performance of FEMA as run by a Bush-appointed political crony.
That simple.
Tell me again how Microsoft is so much superior to OpenOffice because people switching to OpenOffice can't find the Office menus, and are too dumb to learn, blah, blah, blah.
Microsoft breaks anything it wants when it wants. Period.
Another Windows shill excuse down the drain. Thanks, Microsoft.
What do you mean IF Microsoft did this?
THEY DID - LONG AGO! Don't you remember that case? It was even the SAME COUNTRY!
Score 2: Troll! Thank you for playing, moron!
Bullshit.
Blaming the Mayor is just the Fed excuse as to why the whole thing turned into a mess.
It's excusing Bush and his politically connected incompetent cronies running FEMA.
Nothing more.
"The levee system was not designed to take a hurricane of this magnitude."
Exactly the point - and the funds to make it so have been slashed for years (including under Democratic administrations, just so you know I'm not a Democrat, either) - and recent appropriations were diverted to Iraq.
Blaming the Mayor is like blaming Giuliani for 9/11. The casualties from failing to evacuate NO properly do not excuse the underlying problems with the levees nor does it excuse the fascist and incompetent response by FEMA.
"from the switching box back to the main station will be fiber.."
Uhm, that's what they call "fiber to the home"...I wasn't assuming the whole house will be wired with fiber and neither is anyone else when FTTH is discussed.
Not all companies offer wireless - and which of the majors doesn't? Who cares about the smaller outfits when discussing regulatory matters?
Cheap minutes? Who offers the plans? They WANT people to switch from landline to wireless because they make more profit there! Are you saying they want people to switch because they DON'T? They just want people to have BOTH? Well, sure they do - and they'd sell you a car, too, if they could - but they can't. Anybody in the cellular business should know it is obvious that once you have a decent cell phone and a decent plan, who needs landline?
If the major companies were subsidized by the government, that makes the landline cash cow even more so. That still doesn't mean they're going to LOSE money if people switch to something else. They're just not going to make as MUCH money - and I still say that is questionable.
The phone companies are NEVER going to lose money (except on dumb investments) - unless wireless from third parties become ubiquitous (which it might).
Hah! Not nearly that easy...even with the right software - which most users probably wouldn't know the name of, how to find it, how to install it, etc.
The same complaints people have about Linux, in fact.
If it's true in one, it's true in the other - or not.
Well, given that the money comes from the Feds...and goes to the Army Corp of Engineers...
OTOH, apparently a lot of money going into Louisiana was siphoned off by corrupt state officials, according to one article I read.
On the second hand, that article could be just more of the Feds blaming the state, like they did with the phoney "didn't call an emergency" crap. In fact, despite the fact that Louisiana has had corrupt officials for decades, I suspect the Feds are blaming the state IN ADVANCE for stealing the billions the Bush cronies plan to steal from the reconstruction effort.
Already the White House aide in charge of drawing up policies for the disbursement of funds for the reconstruction has been indicted for being involved with Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist - and this guy's wife was in charge of the Senate investigation of what went wrong with the FEMA response.
How obvious does it have to get?
People just can't believe how deep and extensive and actually murderous the corruption in the US system actually goes. Everybody has no trouble believing it about the Iraqi government or some other tinpot dictators, but nobody can believe it about their own.