You know, I run into people all the time that think they didn't or don't need a DBA. Usually, they are calling me when they can't figure something out or their system crashed and they can't recover, etc, etc. It doesn't matter if its commercial or opensource, you need a DBA. Someone who understands how to administer the environment and protect your data.
Personally, as a DBA, I don't like mySql because of the numerous gotcha's it has unlike postgreSql. That speaks for itself... but hey, if you write bugfree code and trust that others do as well, then go ahead, use it. BTW> I'm a fan of postgreSQL, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend that if $$$ are a concern.
The only people I know that would use mysql as the backend for anything aren't DBA's. Why? Because it allows you to put crap in your database.. This has been debated countless times on/. so there's no point going through all the points again. Lets just say any DBA worth a grain of salt wouldn't use mysql.
Basically it sounds like the only thing the tablet PC has over a laptop is the fact you can 'draw' on it which makes it more usefull for taking notes. Aren't there any laptops out there that have a touch sensitive screen? That way you can take notes (I can type as fast as I can write) and still be able to draw diagrams or equations.
I don't know if handwriting recognition software has gotten better over the past 1.5 years but I know its annoying as hell to try and 'write' words on my palm at a fast enough speed to be useful. I can't seem myself buying a more expensive version of a PDA to put up with that.
I'm not sure I understand.. I don't remember specifying anything unique when I installed it on my rh9 box. Since rh and mandrake are rpm distros I didn't think there would be any issues.
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I've searched for apt/apt-get or whatever its called and can't find it. I downloaded it at one point for my old redhat box but now that i'm on mandrake I want to use it again.
I bought a few camcorders and returned them because of poor indoor quality. Also, some of these camcorders 'night vision' is only good for taking still pictures. If you try and record video you'll notice its slow and laggy.
We tried panasonic, jvc, etc but SONY was the best and their night vision, while bringing back memories of the Blair Witch project has really come in handy.
For anyone interested in buying a camcorder find a store with a good return policy and try a couple until you find one you like. Take reviews like the parent post with a grain of salt.
Last summer we were in the market for a miniDV digital camcorder.... We had a VHS-C which took very nice images but we wanted something less bulky and a longer battery life.
I talked to a few people who had one and they all recommended finding one with a builtin light because while in outdoor conditions the picture quality was amazing, indoors it was very grainy. We found most miniDV camcorders don't come with a light so we specifically looked for one and found a panasonic. Indoors the panasonic took crappy pictures, alot worse than our VHS-C and when you turned the builtin light on it seems to record stuff in slow motion or something. It was weird.
Anyways, to make a long story short, we tried a couple, either their indoor quality was crap, made too much noise and you could hear it on tape, etc. In the end we went with a sony TRV-19. Indoors picture quality is really good, outdoors its amazing.. The sound quality is amazing as well.
Before this I was never a sony person.. I always thought they weren't worth the extra few dollars you'll pay but in the case of camcorders its definately worth it. I've read reviews of other camcorders and they say what they lack in optical quality they make up for it with extra features over the sony. But really, when you look back on it, do you care if you have an extra features or do you want your memories to be as crisp as possible?
Also keep in mind that the only difference (mostly) between lower end models and higher end models is features. The basic camcorder is the same. The difference between the JVC's is a slot for a memory card. With the Sony the difference is a memory stick and the option to act as a pass through for VHS conversion. Since most camera's are only comparative to a 1meg digital camera we didn't think this feature was worth the extra money.
If you plan on doing any editing on your computer buy a big HD.. 2 hours of video raw is about 30 gig.
I'll agree with the person you responded to, learning a new language should be done by diving right in but only by programmers. ie, people with a history in development. Sure, if your new to programming in general your going to write pretty crappy code but for a seasoned veteren they may not know the gotcha's of a particular language but that doesn't mean the end result will be buggy, hard to maitain, no security or comments.
Some of these things, like cute tricks and security implications are only going to be found via trial and error. How else do you propose someone learns? Not even a training course will solve these things.. You may catch a tip or two from the instructor but in general they only teach the basics.
I'm a DBA but have done programming in the past. I may not know DB2 but I could ramp up on it rather fast because I know the basic's behind database technology which are common across any product. The same can be said for programming..
From what I understand, a good monthly income is peanuts for someone here. But how much of that 25$ is landing in the programmers pocket in India? You can't compare importing workers to the states with outsourcing.
You can't be serious? What bugs me these days is that anyone thinks they can program or be a DBA after picking up a teach yourself in 24 hours book or doing some coding in their spare time. For that matter, the people that take 10 week/6 month programming boot camps are in the same league if you ask me.
Its why IT is in such sad shape today.. The people who were really interested in computers/tech took engineer or CS in university... The other group, who are just here for a job, did history or religion in University, realized they have no marketable skills and went to some overpriced IT-farm. They have no real interest other than getting a cheque every two weeks. They don't really understand or care about what they are doing.
Yes, i'm making a rather blanket statement but i'm getting stick of having to put up with this crap. But from what I have seen, these IT-mill people are good for very junior positions. And yes, there are some exceptions to this, but these people are genuinely smart and could pick up anything they wanted. There aren't too many of these people around tho.
Sorry, but I have had to clean up other's messes too many times. I'm sure most other _real_ IT people would agree with me.
If your a decent programmer you won't have any problems. Have you ever tried to debug a stored procedure in mysql? Last time I checked every line was stored in the DB as a single line. So an error on line 100 would return as error on line 1. That is a nightmare to maintain.
Most real DBA's that I know of (and I know quite a few being one myself) don't understand why mySql is so popular. As mentioned numerous times above this thread, it allows you to insert crap into your database.
Sure, for simple websites mysql or small startups without capital its fine but for the job i'm paid to do, I won't risk it on mysql.
Cause they are cheap. Seriously, i've been a DBA for 8 years and just the mention of mysql or postgresql can cause involuntary flinching in management.
Sad fact is a significant number of applications out there that can require a database could perform just as well using postgresql. (After reading the mysql gotcha's list and experimenting with it over the past week I don't think i'll be recommending that DB for awhile. Unless its for a website backend or something.) But for some reason management things they need to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a commercial DB.
I try to stay away from licensing but yesterday I priced Oracle for a server were going to put in.. I almost fainted. With these up and coming OS databases the big boys are going to have to make some serious cuts to their pricing scheme or start releasing stripped down versions.
Isn't sql lite for embedded apps? That would imply (to me) that its for PDA style applications. Which would mean that there would only be one users and database level locking wouldn't be an issue.
I've always been curious of packet sniffing but really never investigated it indepth. Would the person who wants to sniff your network be on the same subnet or have access to some major hub? ie, How is a guy in Russia going to sniff and find the right port combo if the server is in Seattle?
Wouldn't he have had to hack a computer closer to his target in order to be successful?
Wouldn't the best option be to have some type of SecurID based password in order to access the port? Unless there is a bug or hole in the software isn't a randomly changing password that requires a pin about as good as it gets?
And as they say, Security through obscurity isn't.
I dunno about satelite TV but with my cable digital box it has a decent on screen tv listing browser. The problem is, it lists every damn channel. I could care less about channels I don't have, I just want to see the schedule for the ones I do have without having to memorize if I am subscribed or not.
Any services out there have a decent listing program like this?
See what locking into proprietary software gets you? If they had chosen an opensource vendor then they could have reviewed the code and maybe discovered the trojan!
If your really interested in getting into IT your best bet is to find a job that requires a background in medicine.
I'm sure there are plenty of companies out there that would love to have a CS person that has a strong background in medicine. You would probably have valuable insight that a normal CS person wouldn't have because of your experiences.
I have a Doctor friend and one thing i've noticed is that they have alot of contacts in the pharmaceutical industry. I would think that some of these companies are developing software for your industry and would be looking for someone with your experience.
Just wondering if someone maintains a list or website that lists active projects and if they are looking for new members/contributors. If so, the areas they are looking for?
Our latest monitor picks up only on our neighbour.... Our old one however had a longer range and also picked up on the gigahertz cordless phones.
One day I hear a phone ringing in my son's room so I went in to take a quick listen. It was a wife calling her husband and to make a long story short she was at her wits end. It was basically a shape up or ship our phone call. She went into quite a bit of his 'activities' that bugged her.
Now, if only my wife was there so she'd realize i'm not that 'bad'.
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Personally, as a DBA, I don't like mySql because of the numerous gotcha's it has unlike postgreSql. That speaks for itself... but hey, if you write bugfree code and trust that others do as well, then go ahead, use it. BTW> I'm a fan of postgreSQL, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend that if $$$ are a concern.
As far as I know google uses its own proprietory software not mysql.
The only people I know that would use mysql as the backend for anything aren't DBA's. Why? Because it allows you to put crap in your database.. This has been debated countless times on /. so there's no point going through all the points again. Lets just say any DBA worth a grain of salt wouldn't use mysql.
Mine was a full-time permanent position.
I would say that job boards make it even easier for headhunters to find people.
Thanks to their frivilous lawsuit everyone and their dog will know about it. I can't imagine this sort of thing will be good for business.
There appears to be a number of counter arguements in there.
I don't know if handwriting recognition software has gotten better over the past 1.5 years but I know its annoying as hell to try and 'write' words on my palm at a fast enough speed to be useful. I can't seem myself buying a more expensive version of a PDA to put up with that.
I'm not sure I understand.. I don't remember specifying anything unique when I installed it on my rh9 box. Since rh and mandrake are rpm distros I didn't think there would be any issues. thanks
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We tried panasonic, jvc, etc but SONY was the best and their night vision, while bringing back memories of the Blair Witch project has really come in handy.
For anyone interested in buying a camcorder find a store with a good return policy and try a couple until you find one you like. Take reviews like the parent post with a grain of salt.
I talked to a few people who had one and they all recommended finding one with a builtin light because while in outdoor conditions the picture quality was amazing, indoors it was very grainy. We found most miniDV camcorders don't come with a light so we specifically looked for one and found a panasonic. Indoors the panasonic took crappy pictures, alot worse than our VHS-C and when you turned the builtin light on it seems to record stuff in slow motion or something. It was weird.
Anyways, to make a long story short, we tried a couple, either their indoor quality was crap, made too much noise and you could hear it on tape, etc. In the end we went with a sony TRV-19. Indoors picture quality is really good, outdoors its amazing.. The sound quality is amazing as well.
Before this I was never a sony person.. I always thought they weren't worth the extra few dollars you'll pay but in the case of camcorders its definately worth it. I've read reviews of other camcorders and they say what they lack in optical quality they make up for it with extra features over the sony. But really, when you look back on it, do you care if you have an extra features or do you want your memories to be as crisp as possible?
Also keep in mind that the only difference (mostly) between lower end models and higher end models is features. The basic camcorder is the same. The difference between the JVC's is a slot for a memory card. With the Sony the difference is a memory stick and the option to act as a pass through for VHS conversion. Since most camera's are only comparative to a 1meg digital camera we didn't think this feature was worth the extra money.
If you plan on doing any editing on your computer buy a big HD.. 2 hours of video raw is about 30 gig.
Some of these things, like cute tricks and security implications are only going to be found via trial and error. How else do you propose someone learns? Not even a training course will solve these things.. You may catch a tip or two from the instructor but in general they only teach the basics.
I'm a DBA but have done programming in the past. I may not know DB2 but I could ramp up on it rather fast because I know the basic's behind database technology which are common across any product. The same can be said for programming..
From what I understand, a good monthly income is peanuts for someone here. But how much of that 25$ is landing in the programmers pocket in India? You can't compare importing workers to the states with outsourcing.
Its why IT is in such sad shape today.. The people who were really interested in computers/tech took engineer or CS in university... The other group, who are just here for a job, did history or religion in University, realized they have no marketable skills and went to some overpriced IT-farm. They have no real interest other than getting a cheque every two weeks. They don't really understand or care about what they are doing.
Yes, i'm making a rather blanket statement but i'm getting stick of having to put up with this crap. But from what I have seen, these IT-mill people are good for very junior positions. And yes, there are some exceptions to this, but these people are genuinely smart and could pick up anything they wanted. There aren't too many of these people around tho.
Sorry, but I have had to clean up other's messes too many times. I'm sure most other _real_ IT people would agree with me.
Most real DBA's that I know of (and I know quite a few being one myself) don't understand why mySql is so popular. As mentioned numerous times above this thread, it allows you to insert crap into your database.
Sure, for simple websites mysql or small startups without capital its fine but for the job i'm paid to do, I won't risk it on mysql.
Sad fact is a significant number of applications out there that can require a database could perform just as well using postgresql. (After reading the mysql gotcha's list and experimenting with it over the past week I don't think i'll be recommending that DB for awhile. Unless its for a website backend or something.) But for some reason management things they need to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a commercial DB.
I try to stay away from licensing but yesterday I priced Oracle for a server were going to put in.. I almost fainted. With these up and coming OS databases the big boys are going to have to make some serious cuts to their pricing scheme or start releasing stripped down versions.
Isn't sql lite for embedded apps? That would imply (to me) that its for PDA style applications. Which would mean that there would only be one users and database level locking wouldn't be an issue.
Wouldn't he have had to hack a computer closer to his target in order to be successful?
Wouldn't the best option be to have some type of SecurID based password in order to access the port? Unless there is a bug or hole in the software isn't a randomly changing password that requires a pin about as good as it gets?
And as they say, Security through obscurity isn't.
Any services out there have a decent listing program like this?
See what locking into proprietary software gets you? If they had chosen an opensource vendor then they could have reviewed the code and maybe discovered the trojan!
Oh sure, when I try and be funny I get branded a troll but when I don't.......
I'm sure there are plenty of companies out there that would love to have a CS person that has a strong background in medicine. You would probably have valuable insight that a normal CS person wouldn't have because of your experiences.
I have a Doctor friend and one thing i've noticed is that they have alot of contacts in the pharmaceutical industry. I would think that some of these companies are developing software for your industry and would be looking for someone with your experience.
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Java Programmer
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One day I hear a phone ringing in my son's room so I went in to take a quick listen. It was a wife calling her husband and to make a long story short she was at her wits end. It was basically a shape up or ship our phone call. She went into quite a bit of his 'activities' that bugged her.
Now, if only my wife was there so she'd realize i'm not that 'bad'.