And it's a bit absurd that The Fine Article was talking about the "ANSI-92 SQL Standard".
Wouldn't the "SQL-2003 standard" or at least the "SQL-99 standard" be better goals to shoot for?
" 2) Stored procedures are not checked into a version control engine."
Your DBA should be fired. All source code should be checked into the version control system. In fact, since the version of your stored procedures and the version of the application almost certainly have dependancies on each other, they should be checked into the same repository and branch in your source control system. How else could you reconstruct a checked in application?
About 7-8 minutes if not much changed.
About half an hour if a lot changed. Many hours the first time to make the mirror. One machine is a 2.4GHz system, and one 350MHz Pentium II. They have a mix of Maxtor, IBM/Hitachi, and Western Digital drives.
%/usr/bin/time sudo rsync -n -av -e ssh . root@192.168.69.1:/mnt/hdb1/archive/. wrote 3176792 bytes read 20 bytes 7179.24 bytes/sec total size is 45738446983 speedup is 14397.59 1.19user 2.99system 7:21.57elapsed 0%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k 0inputs+0outputs (0major+4465minor)pagefaults 0swaps % df -h. Filesystem__Size_Used_Avail_Use%_Mounted on /dev/hdg1___231G_153G_67G____70%_/mnt/hdg1 %
Guys, mod this guy up. For anyone using only RAID or only 'rsync' or anything else without the benefit of being to roll-back to any old versions, it's worth checking out what this guy wrote.
I have a TB here, and rather than raid, I decided to do a nightly "rsync" mirror to a "yesterday" partition.
The two advantages of the nightly rsync over RAID are
It protects against user-error too. If I make a bad edit, I can always 'diff' against/yesterday/home/me/...'
It makes upgrades of both hardware and software easy. Since my live backups are excactly that (live, and tested every day), one machine can be fully upgraded while the other acts as the primary one for a while.
Important data also gets backed up to another large HD in my car and DVDs in a safe occasionally, to protect against a fire or burglars.
The Fine Article wrote: "those with pathological fear of reading anything that follows F1 were left out in the cold."
Surely they meant "anything that follows Ctrl-Alt-F1".
"F1" does nothing here.
And Ctrl-Alt-F1 isn't even that scary unless you're on a distro like knoppix, that has that screen already logged in to someone with password-less sudo ability.
(or did I not understand what they were trying to say)
What amazes me is that Windows is so much of a pain in the neck someone actually has to pay people to work on it!
If it was really cool/interesting/good to work on Windows, wouldn't the best hackers just voluntarily contribute their free time to improving it for free?
I would very much welcome a worm/trojan/hacker/script-kiddie that detected a security hole on my system and then *TOLD* me (email postmaster@example.com, or webmaster@example.com, etc) about the security hole.
Whether or not it patches the hole is secondary -- once some external program told me I have a hole, it's time to wipe the OS and recover data from backups anyway. The important thing in my mind is that it lets me know (though I guess one could argue that saturating your outgoing link counts as informing someone:) )
Unfortunatelly it seems anti-hacking laws prevent even well intentioned testing&informing of sites.
I bet the internet would be a much safer place if it was OK and encouraged to run scripts finding and informing people that their machine's an open relay, etc.
I've gone well past the point where my data is worth more than the total cost of a new computer, and I don't want to lose it to a HD or computer failure. I'm particularly concerned that we are digitizing our family photos and that they could poof one day.
Offsite backups are your friend. No matter what your filesystem's software, or the coolness of your raid array, or your battery-backed redo-logs; if a fire or a burglar takes your disks holding your filesystem you're hozed.
Personally, instead of a raid, I do a nightly "rsync" to a "yesterday" drive on a separate server (hense protecting myself from stupid-user failures as well as filesystem/disk failures); a "every time I did something significant" rsync to an encrypted filesystem removable drive kept in my car; and a "once in a blue moon" copy to DVDs in a safe.
An added benefit - upgrading an OS, or a computer is trivial, because the live backups are just that - live, and tested every night.
(Back to the filesystem topic, Reiser's whole naming idea is so much cooler than a heirarchy or a relational system I really hope this is the next big advance for Linux).
Too bad you post anonymously; I'd add you to my friends list.
It's actually me, the ron_ivi guy who started this tangent with my overly casual misuse of the term ironic. No doubt this'll lose (it'd almost be fun to say 'loose') me the spot on the friends list, but I do most of my off-topic posting as an AC.
I've never been that good at grammar/linguistics, but kinda enjoy the topic anyway and know how to use a reference book when/if I need to - so when someone hits one of my posts with a grammar flame, I can't resist responding in kind.
"It's the morning-after pill for just about anything that produces regret, remorse, pain, or guilt," says Dr. Leon Kass, chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics, who emphasizes that he's speaking as an individual and not on behalf of the council. Barry Romo, a national coordinator for Vietnam Veterans Against the War, is even more blunt. "That's the devil pill," he says. "That's the monster pill, the anti-morality pill. That's the pill that can make men and women do anything and think they can get away with it. Even if it doesn't work, what's scary is that a young soldier could believe it will."
Are we ready for the infamous Nuremberg plea?"I was just following orders"?to be made easier with pharmaceuticals? Though the research so far has been limited to animals and the most preliminary of human trials, the question is worth debating now.
"If you have the pill, it certainly increases the temptation for the soldier to lower the standard for taking lethal action, if he thinks he'll be numbed to the personal risk of consequences. We don't want soldiers saying willy-nilly, 'Screw it. I can take my pill and even if doing this is not really warranted, I'll be OK,' " says psychiatrist Edmund G. Howe, director of the Program on Medical Ethics at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. "If soldiers are going to have that lower threshold, we might have to build in even stronger safeguards than we have right now against, say, blowing away human shields. We'll need a higher standard of proof [that an action is justified]."
Slightly ironic that the/. title was "vaccinated against vices", and the Village Voice's spin is "vaccinated against morality".
'Since "Blade Runner," the title of the movie, isn't actually a trademark,'
What utter nonsense.
Blade Runner is a trademark of...
The Gates Corporation" in the context of "G & S: POWER TRANSMISSION BELTS FOR MACHINES, MOTORS AND ENGINES USED IN INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; TIMING BELTS FOR MACHINES, MOTORS AND ENGINES USED IN INDUSTRIAL"
Kobelco American Inc. in the context of "Construction machines, namely, excavators and bulldozers"
In the context of the movie (irrelevant for this conversation), you're thinking of The Blade Runner Partnership and/or "The Ladd Company" (the company of the fmr president of FOx) who owns the rights to the trademark in this case.
The construction machines guys are probably the most likely to have a problem.
" I agree in theory, but in practice a vote libertarian is a vote for Bush. "
No more than a vote for Kerry is a vote for Bush. Unless the election is decided by your one vote, the message your vote sends is purely and entirely in the percentages.
By voting for a Libertariean, it's telling the Democrats to start picking electable candidates; and it's telling the Republicans that they need to watch their former-supporters who were advocates of small-government before the Republicans turned into bigger spenders then the worst Democrats.
Only those people with no respect for intellectual property rights kept using them.
I find it interestingly ironic that most commercial software disrespected IP-rights by continuing to include GIFs, while the open source community showed far more respect for intellectual property law by going through great effort to avoid violating such patents.
Robertson has seen both good and bad outcomes of lawsuits. My guess is that he saw that this was the best way out of this trademark fight - he probably did the math and decided that even if he'd win in the end, it wouldn't make him more than $20MM.
This is Win/Win for everyone involved. MSFT's trademark on X-windows isn't thrown out yet, and Linspire gets the value they expected.
Yeah, that was an original idea. It even came as I'm contemplating leaving the Software industry to possibly start a restaraunt.
And yes, it's hard to find highly qualified seafood chefs for a high-end fish place; and easy to find people with "food industry" experience from the fast food places.
if you have an opening for a PHP dude, you are going to get a trickling of resumes,
Quantity of resumes shouldn't be your top concern.
One manager I know looks for BOTH Python _AND_ C# skills of his developers because he says this pre-qualifies candidates for people with enough of an interest in computer science to understand recent technologies.
but an ASP/ASP.net dude, you're gonna get a boatful.
Just because I can find lots of people with McDonalds experience, doesn't mean my restaraunt should specialize in fries and burgers.
Hint: All the.com, etc domains will resolve just fine with almost all the alternate-TLD providers.
It's just that if they enter a.geek address they'll get a website instead of a SiteFinder or an Internent Explorer Search page.
Don't tell me your users actually depend on such features!
When I say "Red Hat" what do you think of first? When I say "Novell" what do you think of first?
But which company is worth more?
Surprisingly, they're both about exactly the same. 2.71Billion for Novell and 2.76 Billion for Red Hat according to Yahoo Finance today.
Not that market-cap means a lot, but it was surprising to me. I suspect it surprises both groups - open source fans will be surprised to see the "failed network company" be worth so much - especially considering Red Hat was once worth 10X as much. And I suspect old-school-corporate types would be surprized to see a bunch of Linux hippies being worth as much as a giant like Novell.
The company I'm at now is mostly a.NET shop, but with a handful of skunkworks linux/mono projects going on, either as prototypes or proofs-of-concept.
One if these was discussed with a rather large customer (government) who was surprised and very favoribly impressed to hear that the product was based on "Novell's Linux, and Novell's implementation of.NET".
Their core infrastructure - many dozens of offices across the state - is all based on Novell, who they have a lot of confidence in. I think there's a good chance they'll be wanting the "Novell.NET" solution when we ship the final product.
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This deserves the insightful mod.
And it's a bit absurd that The Fine Article was talking about the "ANSI-92 SQL Standard".
Wouldn't the "SQL-2003 standard" or at least the "SQL-99 standard" be better goals to shoot for?
For the SQL 2003 standard, you can look here. Yeah it's the last draft, but practically nothing changed from the (costly) finalized standard.
Your DBA should be fired. All source code should be checked into the version control system. In fact, since the version of your stored procedures and the version of the application almost certainly have dependancies on each other, they should be checked into the same repository and branch in your source control system. How else could you reconstruct a checked in application?
Guys, mod this guy up. For anyone using only RAID or only 'rsync' or anything else without the benefit of being to roll-back to any old versions, it's worth checking out what this guy wrote.
Extended Warranties are such a profitable business, I bet LaCie would eagerly sell you one and start such a business unit.
If they won't, one of the car extended warranty places would probably jump on the opportunity if they thought people would fall for thm.
I have a TB here, and rather than raid, I decided to do a nightly "rsync" mirror to a "yesterday" partition.
The two advantages of the nightly rsync over RAID are
- It protects against user-error too. If I make a bad edit, I can always 'diff' against
/yesterday/home/me/...'
- It makes upgrades of both hardware and software easy. Since my live backups are excactly that (live, and tested every day), one machine can be fully upgraded while the other acts as the primary one for a while.
Important data also gets backed up to another large HD in my car and DVDs in a safe occasionally, to protect against a fire or burglars.The Google API
The Google Filesystem
The Google Homeland Security Database
The Google Censorship Features
Surely they meant "anything that follows Ctrl-Alt-F1".
"F1" does nothing here.
And Ctrl-Alt-F1 isn't even that scary unless you're on a distro like knoppix, that has that screen already logged in to someone with password-less sudo ability.
(or did I not understand what they were trying to say)
If it was really cool/interesting/good to work on Windows, wouldn't the best hackers just voluntarily contribute their free time to improving it for free?
http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html
"[2] When Google advertises Java programming jobs, they cleverly require Python experience."
Whether or not it patches the hole is secondary -- once some external program told me I have a hole, it's time to wipe the OS and recover data from backups anyway. The important thing in my mind is that it lets me know (though I guess one could argue that saturating your outgoing link counts as informing someone :) )
Unfortunatelly it seems anti-hacking laws prevent even well intentioned testing&informing of sites.
I bet the internet would be a much safer place if it was OK and encouraged to run scripts finding and informing people that their machine's an open relay, etc.
Offsite backups are your friend. No matter what your filesystem's software, or the coolness of your raid array, or your battery-backed redo-logs; if a fire or a burglar takes your disks holding your filesystem you're hozed.
Personally, instead of a raid, I do a nightly "rsync" to a "yesterday" drive on a separate server (hense protecting myself from stupid-user failures as well as filesystem/disk failures); a "every time I did something significant" rsync to an encrypted filesystem removable drive kept in my car; and a "once in a blue moon" copy to DVDs in a safe.
An added benefit - upgrading an OS, or a computer is trivial, because the live backups are just that - live, and tested every night.
(Back to the filesystem topic, Reiser's whole naming idea is so much cooler than a heirarchy or a relational system I really hope this is the next big advance for Linux).
It's actually me, the ron_ivi guy who started this tangent with my overly casual misuse of the term ironic. No doubt this'll lose (it'd almost be fun to say 'loose') me the spot on the friends list, but I do most of my off-topic posting as an AC.
I've never been that good at grammar/linguistics, but kinda enjoy the topic anyway and know how to use a reference book when/if I need to - so when someone hits one of my posts with a grammar flame, I can't resist responding in kind.
People are creating pills to immunize people against fealings of guilt and remorse.
Slightly ironic that the
What utter nonsense.
Blade Runner is a trademark of...
The Gates Corporation" in the context of "G & S: POWER TRANSMISSION BELTS FOR MACHINES, MOTORS AND ENGINES USED IN INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; TIMING BELTS FOR MACHINES, MOTORS AND ENGINES USED IN INDUSTRIAL"
Kobelco American Inc. in the context of "Construction machines, namely, excavators and bulldozers"
ROLLERBLADE, INC in the context of rollerblade helmets.
some other guy for fishing lures
and zillions of others in other contexts.
In the context of the movie (irrelevant for this conversation), you're thinking of The Blade Runner Partnership and/or "The Ladd Company" (the company of the fmr president of FOx) who owns the rights to the trademark in this case.
The construction machines guys are probably the most likely to have a problem.
No more than a vote for Kerry is a vote for Bush. Unless the election is decided by your one vote, the message your vote sends is purely and entirely in the percentages.
By voting for a Libertariean, it's telling the Democrats to start picking electable candidates; and it's telling the Republicans that they need to watch their former-supporters who were advocates of small-government before the Republicans turned into bigger spenders then the worst Democrats.
I find it interestingly ironic that most commercial software disrespected IP-rights by continuing to include GIFs, while the open source community showed far more respect for intellectual property law by going through great effort to avoid violating such patents.
Others would call it very good timing
Robertson has seen both good and bad outcomes of lawsuits. My guess is that he saw that this was the best way out of this trademark fight - he probably did the math and decided that even if he'd win in the end, it wouldn't make him more than $20MM.
This is Win/Win for everyone involved. MSFT's trademark on X-windows isn't thrown out yet, and Linspire gets the value they expected.
And yes, it's hard to find highly qualified seafood chefs for a high-end fish place; and easy to find people with "food industry" experience from the fast food places.
$20MM for a similar name sounds pretty wild. What's to stop Aindows, Bindows, etc from trying the same thing?
Well, as BillG said, Open Source kills jobs. Exactly as this story indicates.
Quantity of resumes shouldn't be your top concern.
One manager I know looks for BOTH Python _AND_ C# skills of his developers because he says this pre-qualifies candidates for people with enough of an interest in computer science to understand recent technologies.
but an ASP/ASP.net dude, you're gonna get a boatful.
Just because I can find lots of people with McDonalds experience, doesn't mean my restaraunt should specialize in fries and burgers.
How would your users know or care?
Hint: All the .com, etc domains will resolve just fine with almost all the alternate-TLD providers.
It's just that if they enter a .geek address they'll get a website instead of a SiteFinder or an Internent Explorer Search page.
Don't tell me your users actually depend on such features!
When I say "Novell" what do you think of first?
But which company is worth more?
Surprisingly, they're both about exactly the same. 2.71Billion for Novell and 2.76 Billion for Red Hat according to Yahoo Finance today.
Not that market-cap means a lot, but it was surprising to me. I suspect it surprises both groups - open source fans will be surprised to see the "failed network company" be worth so much - especially considering Red Hat was once worth 10X as much. And I suspect old-school-corporate types would be surprized to see a bunch of Linux hippies being worth as much as a giant like Novell.
One if these was discussed with a rather large customer (government) who was surprised and very favoribly impressed to hear that the product was based on "Novell's Linux, and Novell's implementation of
Their core infrastructure - many dozens of offices across the state - is all based on Novell, who they have a lot of confidence in. I think there's a good chance they'll be wanting the "Novell