Well, then we're both on the same team. I've ran Apache and Mysql both on Solaris for years, and they perform just fine. It'd be interesting to see Solaris vs. Linux on scalability of clients, though. I think Linux would be faster, more secure and ultimately the best choice, but I would guess that Solaris could handle more simultaneous connections.
Mac OS X sucks on servers and rocks on desktop If you're not after performance that is... Or if you're not after security... Or if you are after vendor lock in... Or if you enjoy buying from a company that is more litigious than SCO... Or if you like vendors that deny security flaws... Or you prefer to buy from a company that doesn't contribute the the real spirit of open source... Or if you prefer to be in the company of rabid fan boys... Or if you like spending 2-5x as much on similiarly performing hardware... Or if you like a company that cannot make up its mind... Or if you like buying from a vendor that refuses to fix obvious bugs...
Wait! What are the advantages again? A pretty desktop? Bastardized Unix? Jobs' Reality distortion field?
No thanks. I'll stick with Linux or one of the real BSDs.
Get ready for the humidty, though you're probably used to it if you're near BA. The broadband is fast, I regularly get over 6Mbs for $50/month. I moved from Denver and my salary dropped 10K and my rent halved. Not to mention no income taxes, no emission checking, no expensive car registrations, etc. I'm taking home a lot more here than I ever did in Denver. It helps to know someone though...I'm from around here.
Must have been a pretty old system. On most of my (at home) hardware now, I'm not afraid to reseat the pci cards (Nic/modem/etc.), nor plug/unplug ide/power for the cdroms while they are running. Yeah I know it's insane, but I've never had a problem. It's fun living on the edge.
While this guy is obviously joking, I've always had the dumb assumption that something like this might actually affect something.
Could the lack of energy being pumped into the ground (via sunlight, of course) affect weather patterns in the area? I mean, if the ground isn't as warm as it should be, would that mean cold fronts/warm fronts act differently? How about the mostiure the ground collects (dew, etc). What happens when the this is no longer evaporated?
The voters here in Colorado were suckered into an initiative requiring the utility companies to get 15% of their power from renewable sources whether it made economic sense or not.
The spin you put on this makes it seem bad, however, relatively speaking our idea of efficient alternative energy is less efficient than coal mining and what have you. So, sure, it might not make economical sense compared to non-renewable energy, but that doesn't mean it's a bad thing!
Another reason this whole thing isn't that bad is because it forces companies (Xcel, etc.) to actually work on R&D for making their energy production more efficient - they now have a vested interest in it. If that were not the case, they'd just be burning the candle at both ends with oil/coal and worry about the future when the future came about. Xcel has been putting in a lot of wind generators in SW Minnesota, and they're not done. I love to see those generators every time I travel through there - it means something is actually getting done.
As for the voters in Colorado getting suckered in, well, I hear you, they're not the smartest...
Although the BSD license has its place, I think the GPL is superior in the arena of source changes.
I'm all for being able to change the code, and if you distrubute the modified code, everyone should be able to see what you modified. That is what the GPL license gives us.
austronaut techincally Uselessly turning sentences into acronyms, and then expanding them...
t's what some particular kind of posters here on Slashdot never do.
I agree.
Now, I'm no authority on buzzwords, but I was under the impression that a pod cast was some kinda RSS/Atom feed. The astronaut was probably told to use the word "podcast" by the PR department so they could get attention for using buzzwords, and you guys are eating it up like it's the next Ipod commercial.
1. Nasa publishes an MP3. 2. Someone finds the link to it. 3. Someone realizes they can listen to it on their portable media device. 4. This automagically turns into "podcasting". 5. Someone submits it to Slashdot under Apple using "Ipod" in the summary, solidifying it's chances of making it to the front page. 6. ???
I'm not trying to be rude, and assuming you're not lying in your post above, you have more of a formal education than I do, however:
Don't you think it's a bit counter productive to, say, be an reader/reviewer, yet not be interested in the curiosities that people point out? Isn't that the lifeblood of science? Has not our entire view been changed *many* times over by someone (Eugene Parker, Einstein, Feynman, and many more) driven to uncover the nature of that very same peculiar phenomena you so lightly toss aside?
Allow me to apologize in advance if I misinterpreted your post.
Lemme guess, you're a god with QM. You understand it completely. Nothing escapes you. That certainly qualifies you to put me into the "armchair" qm category.
Holy Crap man! Could you possibly demonstrate any more ignorance? (Well, maybe you voted for Bush:))
Politics aside, you keep using the word "detector", I don't think it means what you think it means.
They're talking about things like photomultiplies, etc. A slit is not a photo multiplier, it is the hole in the article that gives the photon a path to the photomultiplier located further along in the experiment. Usually, photomultipliers are placed where one suspects light will come out. However, light gets really funky when you start trying to guess where it's going to come out.
If you're at all interested in how the world around you works, you might enjoy reading into this. If you're not interested, there are times I've envied your ignorance.
I rarely see rhn down - maybe 3 or 4 times a month, even then it says something along the lines of:
" IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOLLOWS:
Red Hat Network is currently experiencing technical difficulties.
We apologize for any inconvenience this outage may cause.
Thank you for using Red Hat Network.
--the RHN team"
In that case, they usually have it fixed within 20-30 minutes. If it's hanging any more than that, you have connectivity problems. This is my experience with 10 RH (AS/ES, 2.1,3.0, x86/AMD64) boxes.
I'm sorry but you are way off the mark here. I'm sorry that you don't know your job, but don't blame Oracle for your own incompetency. I don't know what gave you the impression that I didn't know my job, or that I was incompetent with oracle, but it's quite clear that you're no stranger to making assumptions.
Restore and recover takes a long time... This depends on what you're talking about. I was talking about worst case...You've got some arch files, some redo files, some dbf files and a new disk you need to get oracle on and running. Yeah, not gonna happen. Mysql? Shit, if they're the same arch (say x86) you can just scp 3 files over. Need to restore to the last transaction? Just apply the binary log. Granted, this situation is unlikey to play out at say, US Bank, where they're probably more prepared. As in all cases, the ease/probability of successful restoration is directly related to how much you prepared for it. Mysql and Postgres require _VERY_ little prepartion and are very flexible from a restoration standpoint. Oracle requires a large amount of time dedicated to configuring everything and it's *VERY* installation specific.
Oracle Dataguard... My fault, I was confusing replication with redundancy. Well, they're mostly the same...
Starting a database is simple: sqlplus "/ as sysdba"; startup... How difficult is that?
What happens when you want to start your other database?...Oh! You have to export your SID...don't expect to find that in the documentation.
P.S. You didn't comment on the security section. I was really hoping you'd defend your bullshit above by showing me how wrong I was with the links I posted. However, in true/. tradition all I got was flames saying "You don't know how to do your job", "You're incompetent", etc.
Oracle does _not_ take vulnerabilites seriously. I agree that the oracle database is extremely complex, and the implications of bugs is enormous, but it's not inherently complex. Because of this, claiming that they don't release patches because it's complex is bullshit. Oracle does not need to be as complex as it is.
First, the complexity: I've been running Oracle just as long as I've been running both Mysql and Postgres (I know what you're saying - oh, he's one of those guys:)), and I know that the features oracle offers can exist without all of the useless bloat oracle tacks on. Mysql can replicate, instantly, to who knows how many databases. Oracle Dataguard is limited to 9. I can restore databases in seconds using postgres, oracle takes all damn day. Mainly because you have to have your ducks in a row with: Arch files, redo files, tnsnames, listener files, spfiles, pfiles, oratab, oracle home, etc. Oracle databases are extemely difficult to get running on a different system. Even exports (exp/imp - what _should be similiar to an sql dump) don't work across OSs. Oracle offers no native sql dump command, instead you have to figure out how to get TORA working. Oracle offers sqlplus, an old, broken command line client that requires unsightly scripting to even start the database. Oracles documentation is very similiar to their product: Disconnected. Nothing fits. Everything (kind of) works, but noone knows how to put it together, save the people who killed what must be hundreds of thousands of brain cells by doing it by trial and error. Oracle requires java, and lots of it. Oracle requires an oracle database to monitor other oracle databases. It's wise to put this on a seperate installation/box. Doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. Now I have twice as many exploitable boxes, not to mention more to backup, administer, etc. Oracle requires an insane amount of diskspace compared to other databases. I'm not arguing for mysql/postgres vs. oracle - I'm just trying to say that Oracle does NOT need all of the bloat it currently has. The company could stand to do a complete rewrite of it.
Hey that looks like a pretty cool camera. Makes me wish I wouldda checked that one out too. However, one of the main selling points for me was the ability to put it in my pocket and this one (dsc-p10) allows me to do that.
Not exactly what you're asking for, but my Sony DSCP10 does about ~4.5 hours of recording (640 x 480/16 frames per second) a 512MB stick. And it's main purpose is as digital camera! USB 2 connectivity and long battery life. Good microphone too.
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You are a saviour!!!!!
I've always wondered if it did this, but I've been too lazy to check.
Well, then we're both on the same team. I've ran Apache and Mysql both on Solaris for years, and they perform just fine. It'd be interesting to see Solaris vs. Linux on scalability of clients, though. I think Linux would be faster, more secure and ultimately the best choice, but I would guess that Solaris could handle more simultaneous connections.
This sounds like a flat out lie from Apple. Not the kind of behaviuor you should expect from a *nix vendor.
Uhh, you've never worked with Sun Microsystems, have you?
Mac OS X sucks on servers and rocks on desktop
If you're not after performance that is...
Or if you're not after security...
Or if you are after vendor lock in...
Or if you enjoy buying from a company that is more litigious than SCO...
Or if you like vendors that deny security flaws...
Or you prefer to buy from a company that doesn't contribute the the real spirit of open source...
Or if you prefer to be in the company of rabid fan boys...
Or if you like spending 2-5x as much on similiarly performing hardware...
Or if you like a company that cannot make up its mind...
Or if you like buying from a vendor that refuses to fix obvious bugs...
Wait! What are the advantages again? A pretty desktop? Bastardized Unix? Jobs' Reality distortion field?
No thanks. I'll stick with Linux or one of the real BSDs.
Only if it's narrated by our favorite robots and imprisioned guy.
Get ready for the humidty, though you're probably used to it if you're near BA. The broadband is fast, I regularly get over 6Mbs for $50/month.
I moved from Denver and my salary dropped 10K and my rent halved. Not to mention no income taxes, no emission checking, no expensive car registrations, etc. I'm taking home a lot more here than I ever did in Denver. It helps to know someone though...I'm from around here.
Must have been a pretty old system. On most of my (at home) hardware now, I'm not afraid to reseat the pci cards (Nic/modem/etc.), nor plug/unplug ide/power for the cdroms while they are running. Yeah I know it's insane, but I've never had a problem. It's fun living on the edge.
While this guy is obviously joking, I've always had the dumb assumption that something like this might actually affect something.
Could the lack of energy being pumped into the ground (via sunlight, of course) affect weather patterns in the area? I mean, if the ground isn't as warm as it should be, would that mean cold fronts/warm fronts act differently? How about the mostiure the ground collects (dew, etc). What happens when the this is no longer evaporated?
Absurd? Probably.
The voters here in Colorado were suckered into an initiative requiring the utility companies to get 15% of their power from renewable sources whether it made economic sense or not.
The spin you put on this makes it seem bad, however, relatively speaking our idea of efficient alternative energy is less efficient than coal mining and what have you. So, sure, it might not make economical sense compared to non-renewable energy, but that doesn't mean it's a bad thing!
Another reason this whole thing isn't that bad is because it forces companies (Xcel, etc.) to actually work on R&D for making their energy production more efficient - they now have a vested interest in it. If that were not the case, they'd just be burning the candle at both ends with oil/coal and worry about the future when the future came about. Xcel has been putting in a lot of wind generators in SW Minnesota, and they're not done. I love to see those generators every time I travel through there - it means something is actually getting done.
As for the voters in Colorado getting suckered in, well, I hear you, they're not the smartest...
I agree.
Although the BSD license has its place, I think the GPL is superior in the arena of source changes.
I'm all for being able to change the code, and if you distrubute the modified code, everyone should be able to see what you modified. That is what the GPL license gives us.
austronaut
techincally
Uselessly turning sentences into acronyms, and then expanding them...
t's what some particular kind of posters here on Slashdot never do.
I agree.
Now, I'm no authority on buzzwords, but I was under the impression that a pod cast was some kinda RSS/Atom feed. The astronaut was probably told to use the word "podcast" by the PR department so they could get attention for using buzzwords, and you guys are eating it up like it's the next Ipod commercial.
Whoa! There isn't the word "ipod" in the summary.
Still, it's submitted under apple, that helps its chances.
My bad.
1. Nasa publishes an MP3.
2. Someone finds the link to it.
3. Someone realizes they can listen to it on their portable media device.
4. This automagically turns into "podcasting".
5. Someone submits it to Slashdot under Apple using "Ipod" in the summary, solidifying it's chances of making it to the front page.
6. ???
I'm not trying to be rude, and assuming you're not lying in your post above, you have more of a formal education than I do, however:
Don't you think it's a bit counter productive to, say, be an reader/reviewer, yet not be interested in the curiosities that people point out? Isn't that the lifeblood of science? Has not our entire view been changed *many* times over by someone (Eugene Parker, Einstein, Feynman, and many more) driven to uncover the nature of that very same peculiar phenomena you so lightly toss aside?
Allow me to apologize in advance if I misinterpreted your post.
http://www.frerichs.net/feyn.html
Enjoy!
Lemme guess, you're a god with QM. You understand it completely. Nothing escapes you. That certainly qualifies you to put me into the "armchair" qm category.
Shit, come back when you grow some balls, pussy.
Holy Crap man! Could you possibly demonstrate any more ignorance? (Well, maybe you voted for Bush:))
Politics aside, you keep using the word "detector", I don't think it means what you think it means.
They're talking about things like photomultiplies, etc. A slit is not a photo multiplier, it is the hole in the article that gives the photon a path to the photomultiplier located further along in the experiment. Usually, photomultipliers are placed where one suspects light will come out. However, light gets really funky when you start trying to guess where it's going to come out.
If you're at all interested in how the world around you works, you might enjoy reading into this. If you're not interested, there are times I've envied your ignorance.
Oh, that's fair. I've never used the GUI, just CLI. Hope they fix that.
Cheers.
I rarely see rhn down - maybe 3 or 4 times a month, even then it says something along the lines of:
" IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOLLOWS:
Red Hat Network is currently experiencing technical difficulties.
We apologize for any inconvenience this outage may cause.
Thank you for using Red Hat Network.
--the RHN team"
In that case, they usually have it fixed within 20-30 minutes.
If it's hanging any more than that, you have connectivity problems. This is my experience with 10 RH (AS/ES, 2.1,3.0, x86/AMD64) boxes.
I'm sorry but you are way off the mark here. I'm sorry that you don't know your job, but don't blame Oracle for your own incompetency.
/. tradition all I got was flames saying "You don't know how to do your job", "You're incompetent", etc.
I don't know what gave you the impression that I didn't know my job, or that I was incompetent with oracle, but it's quite clear that you're no stranger to making assumptions.
Restore and recover takes a long time... This depends on what you're talking about. I was talking about worst case...You've got some arch files, some redo files, some dbf files and a new disk you need to get oracle on and running. Yeah, not gonna happen. Mysql? Shit, if they're the same arch (say x86) you can just scp 3 files over. Need to restore to the last transaction? Just apply the binary log.
Granted, this situation is unlikey to play out at say, US Bank, where they're probably more prepared. As in all cases, the ease/probability of successful restoration is directly related to how much you prepared for it. Mysql and Postgres require _VERY_ little prepartion and are very flexible from a restoration standpoint. Oracle requires a large amount of time dedicated to configuring everything and it's *VERY* installation specific.
Oracle Dataguard... My fault, I was confusing replication with redundancy. Well, they're mostly the same...
Starting a database is simple: sqlplus "/ as sysdba"; startup... How difficult is that?
What happens when you want to start your other database?...Oh! You have to export your SID...don't expect to find that in the documentation.
P.S. You didn't comment on the security section. I was really hoping you'd defend your bullshit above by showing me how wrong I was with the links I posted. However, in true
This is bullshit.
l ished_alerts.html
c le9R2-unpatched.txt
Oracle does _not_ take vulnerabilites seriously. I agree that the oracle database is extremely complex, and the implications of bugs is enormous, but it's not inherently complex. Because of this, claiming that they don't release patches because it's complex is bullshit. Oracle does not need to be as complex as it is.
First, the complexity:
I've been running Oracle just as long as I've been running both Mysql and Postgres (I know what you're saying - oh, he's one of those guys:)), and I know that the features oracle offers can exist without all of the useless bloat oracle tacks on. Mysql can replicate, instantly, to who knows how many databases. Oracle Dataguard is limited to 9. I can restore databases in seconds using postgres, oracle takes all damn day. Mainly because you have to have your ducks in a row with: Arch files, redo files, tnsnames, listener files, spfiles, pfiles, oratab, oracle home, etc. Oracle databases are extemely difficult to get running on a different system. Even exports (exp/imp - what _should be similiar to an sql dump) don't work across OSs. Oracle offers no native sql dump command, instead you have to figure out how to get TORA working. Oracle offers sqlplus, an old, broken command line client that requires unsightly scripting to even start the database.
Oracles documentation is very similiar to their product: Disconnected. Nothing fits. Everything (kind of) works, but noone knows how to put it together, save the people who killed what must be hundreds of thousands of brain cells by doing it by trial and error. Oracle requires java, and lots of it. Oracle requires an oracle database to monitor other oracle databases. It's wise to put this on a seperate installation/box. Doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. Now I have twice as many exploitable boxes, not to mention more to backup, administer, etc. Oracle requires an insane amount of diskspace compared to other databases.
I'm not arguing for mysql/postgres vs. oracle - I'm just trying to say that Oracle does NOT need all of the bloat it currently has. The company could stand to do a complete rewrite of it.
Now, the security:
Here's a perfect example of what I mean:
http://www.red-database-security.com/advisory/pub
The first 6 vulnerabilites are 600(!!!) days old!
Here's a perfect example of their lack of motivation.
http://packetstormsecurity.nl/0507-advisories/Ora
Basically, a vulnerability was disclosed months ago, and oracle fixed 10.x in July's update, but completed ignored 9.x. To quote TFA:
'We contacted Oracle about this issue and Oracle
confirmed it, when we asked why there is no fix
for 9iR2, Oracle said:
"Our development teams neglected to do the backports.
We are working on creating those backports now."'
Leaving production systems unpatched until October! (Assuming oracle doesn't 'neglect' to do it again.
In short, quit reading the marketing bullshit and wake up.
Hey that looks like a pretty cool camera. Makes me wish I wouldda checked that one out too. However, one of the main selling points for me was the ability to put it in my pocket and this one (dsc-p10) allows me to do that.
So does your girlfriend, but you don't hear me complaining.
Not exactly what you're asking for, but my Sony DSCP10 does about ~4.5 hours of recording (640 x 480/16 frames per second) a 512MB stick.
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And it's main purpose is as digital camera! USB 2 connectivity and long battery life. Good microphone too.
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The Subject for these comments is strangely appropriate.