There are a lot of factors here so trying to give you some kind of numbers would be rediculous without knowing your setup. But the simple answer is: If your CPUs get pegged at 100% all the time and all of that CPU is being used up by apache processes running php scripts then it's a good sign that it's time to install an opcode cache. Depending on what your doing they can make a HUGE difference.
Well, if you wanted to use SVG on your website and not code a whole separate site that works without SVG then I think it would be very justified. SVG is an open standard. SVG is very useful. I thought about doing this before there was any project or before there were any incentives. Especially if your site provides a FREE SERVICE. Why not ask people to a standards complient browser that doesn't have a rendering engine that hasn't been upgraded in 6 years.
They most certainly do have this. You can set it up to continuously back up from the transaction logs. It is a little rough around the edges, and you do have to do a little scriting. And unfortunately it is all or nothing. You can't just backup one database.
The nice thing about it is that you CAN do a lot of scripting and set it up in very customized ways to suit whatever needs you have.
I think they went it about it the right way. First make it work in a reliable, flexible way. Then create a way to make the common cases easier. The easy will come soon soon enough. But right now if your willing to take a little time it can work any way you want it to.
Then I'm going to open my own online music store using a french hosting service and sell recordings of myself banging on pots and then make up my own weird DRM (maybe I'll just use some super strong xor based encryption) and then sue anyone who makes a music player that doesn't support my format.
How can blocking updates for the duration of the backup be considered a legitimate way to handle this situation. Just switch to postgres. No rediculous limitations like no hot backup. No weird dual licencing that will cause chaos once some big company buys a third party licenced component. No need for a commercial licence unless what you want is actual support, not just the right to link with the drivers.
Honestly I don't know how people deal with all that. I switched about 4 or 5 years ago and have never looked back.
Question: If I leave a nagios monitoring screen open in Firefox (it refreshes every few minutes or so) why does it eventually use up all the memory on my box (about 1.5 gigs) and have to be killed and relaunched.
Do I want to play quake on my phone? No. (Unless I'm really bored) Do I want to watch video on my phone? Not really. (Unless I'm pretty bored)
Do I want to copy all my divx, mpeg4, H.264, etc files to my iPod or other mobile device and be able to hook them up to any TV anywhere and watch them in full DVD or HD quality. Yes, very much so.
The current iPod video can be hooked up to a TV but it can only play standard TV quality video. Once it can play at least DVD quality it will become a lot more enticing. This is a step in the right direction.
I know that much has been said on the subject and each side has some valid points. Basically if you don't need anything that mysql doesn't have then it's great. But here are two questions that I am honestly intersted in hearing some answers to:
1) You always hear about people who moved from mysql to postgres and "never looked back." I definitely fit into that category and it's pretty obvious to me after using both system why I would never ever ever want to switch back to mysql. I can't even count the number of times I need to do something in postgres that mysql either doesn't do or doesn't do well and I don't even know what I would do if I were still on mysql. So the question is: is there ANYONE who has made the move from mysql to postgres and then regretted it? Even for little things like full text search that doesn't require setting up a separate module?
2) Is there ANYONE who has made the switch from postgres to mysql and stuck with it and not regretted it?
I know you have to be careful with anecdotal evidence but I have simply never heard any story from any person ever that has regretted the move to postgres from mysql and I have never heard of anyone who has switched from postgres to mysql.
Is there anyone out there with a story that fits into one of those categories that would paint mysql in a posative light?
Am I the only person who noticed the foot next to this article. I don't think anyone actually intends to use this as a way to watch movies on the iPod.
What exactly is the point of all of the "why would you ever want to do that" or "just buy an xxx because it already does it posts." We already know this. It's a joke. Laugh.
I just want to second that. I bought two of them (yes the last two for the moment) on ebay this week because my old ones are a bit well old and need to be replaced. I would just buy the new ones but I don't want ctl-insert, shift-insert to suddenly be come complicated operations.
No it does not write directly to the disk cluster if you mean that it can write to a raw unformatted disk. They want to get all of the nice buffering for free from the os because they can't beat it's performance yet. Writing directly to the raw disk would slow it down right now. They are going to reconsider this if someone can write a caching system that can beat the os but so far that hasn't happened.
They also do not have table partioning. It has been discussed and it is a high priority feature but it doesn't seem like anyone has seriously tried to tackle it yet. I'm guessing that it will be on the radar for the next release though.
Tablespaces basically just lets you partition your db across different volumes but a single table cannot be split up.
I am not a developer but this is what I have gleaned from the hackers list.
Now I (or somebody else) just needs to write the following components.
1) Applescripts to interface with iTunes 2) a web app that uses the applescripts to let me control this from anywhere in the house 3) a daemon that uses the applescripts to allow clients to control itunes over tcp/ip 4) clients for any media center software I might be running on my home entertainment system
The great thing is you don't actually have to store the files on the xbox. You can configure it to mount a smb/samba share from a windows or linux box on the local network. Then you can store far more than you ever could on even a 250 gig drive.
If you get a tv tuner card for your pc and have it automatically store the files on a share that is available on your xbox then there is really no need to actually hood the tuner up to the xbox.
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I am living in Utah, and Mormon and I thought it was pretty funny. I wish I could mod it up.
Or you're posting to slashdot.
> The quality of the "news stories" that slashdot carries has gone downhill drastically in recent months.
And the number of comments stating that the quality of the news stories is declining has stayed about constant for several years.
If only there was a way to mod something as funny, insightful, informative, and very, very not funny all at the same time.
There are a lot of factors here so trying to give you some kind of numbers would be rediculous without knowing your setup. But the simple answer is: If your CPUs get pegged at 100% all the time and all of that CPU is being used up by apache processes running php scripts then it's a good sign that it's time to install an opcode cache. Depending on what your doing they can make a HUGE difference.
Did it seem weird to anyone else to see the words grown up and slahsdot in the same sentence together?
I have nothing to say about your comment but that sig is really freaking funny.
Well, if you wanted to use SVG on your website and not code a whole separate site that works without SVG then I think it would be very justified. SVG is an open standard. SVG is very useful. I thought about doing this before there was any project or before there were any incentives. Especially if your site provides a FREE SERVICE. Why not ask people to a standards complient browser that doesn't have a rendering engine that hasn't been upgraded in 6 years.
They most certainly do have this. You can set it up to continuously back up from the transaction logs. It is a little rough around the edges, and you do have to do a little scriting. And unfortunately it is all or nothing. You can't just backup one database.
The nice thing about it is that you CAN do a lot of scripting and set it up in very customized ways to suit whatever needs you have.
I think they went it about it the right way. First make it work in a reliable, flexible way. Then create a way to make the common cases easier. The easy will come soon soon enough. But right now if your willing to take a little time it can work any way you want it to.
Then I'm going to open my own online music store using a french hosting service and sell recordings of myself banging on pots and then make up my own weird DRM (maybe I'll just use some super strong xor based encryption) and then sue anyone who makes a music player that doesn't support my format.
Well what about updating JHymn to support iTunes6 then!
No kidding!
It's a good thing we don't have 8 entire different versions of Linux. Oh wait...
How can blocking updates for the duration of the backup be considered a legitimate way to handle this situation. Just switch to postgres. No rediculous limitations like no hot backup. No weird dual licencing that will cause chaos once some big company buys a third party licenced component. No need for a commercial licence unless what you want is actual support, not just the right to link with the drivers.
Honestly I don't know how people deal with all that. I switched about 4 or 5 years ago and have never looked back.
Question: If I leave a nagios monitoring screen open in Firefox (it refreshes every few minutes or so) why does it eventually use up all the memory on my box (about 1.5 gigs) and have to be killed and relaunched.
Answer: It has memory leaks.
Do I want to play quake on my phone? No. (Unless I'm really bored)
Do I want to watch video on my phone? Not really. (Unless I'm pretty bored)
Do I want to copy all my divx, mpeg4, H.264, etc files to my iPod or other mobile device and be able to hook them up to any TV anywhere and watch them in full DVD or HD quality. Yes, very much so.
The current iPod video can be hooked up to a TV but it can only play standard TV quality video. Once it can play at least DVD quality it will become a lot more enticing. This is a step in the right direction.
> All applications have got pre-defined passwords that never change.
Like anyone could ever know that. Gosh!
I know that much has been said on the subject and each side has some valid points. Basically if you don't need anything that mysql doesn't have then it's great. But here are two questions that I am honestly intersted in hearing some answers to:
1) You always hear about people who moved from mysql to postgres and "never looked back." I definitely fit into that category and it's pretty obvious to me after using both system why I would never ever ever want to switch back to mysql. I can't even count the number of times I need to do something in postgres that mysql either doesn't do or doesn't do well and I don't even know what I would do if I were still on mysql. So the question is: is there ANYONE who has made the move from mysql to postgres and then regretted it? Even for little things like full text search that doesn't require setting up a separate module?
2) Is there ANYONE who has made the switch from postgres to mysql and stuck with it and not regretted it?
I know you have to be careful with anecdotal evidence but I have simply never heard any story from any person ever that has regretted the move to postgres from mysql and I have never heard of anyone who has switched from postgres to mysql.
Is there anyone out there with a story that fits into one of those categories that would paint mysql in a posative light?
Am I the only person who noticed the foot next to this article. I don't think anyone actually intends to use this as a way to watch movies on the iPod.
What exactly is the point of all of the "why would you ever want to do that" or "just buy an xxx because it already does it posts." We already know this. It's a joke. Laugh.
I just want to second that. I bought two of them (yes the last two for the moment) on ebay this week because my old ones are a bit well old and need to be replaced. I would just buy the new ones but I don't want ctl-insert, shift-insert to suddenly be come complicated operations.
Or when you don't stop to think about it.
No it does not write directly to the disk cluster if you mean that it can write to a raw unformatted disk. They want to get all of the nice buffering for free from the os because they can't beat it's performance yet. Writing directly to the raw disk would slow it down right now. They are going to reconsider this if someone can write a caching system that can beat the os but so far that hasn't happened.
They also do not have table partioning. It has been discussed and it is a high priority feature but it doesn't seem like anyone has seriously tried to tackle it yet. I'm guessing that it will be on the radar for the next release though.
Tablespaces basically just lets you partition your db across different volumes but a single table cannot be split up.
I am not a developer but this is what I have gleaned from the hackers list.
Now I (or somebody else) just needs to write the following components.
1) Applescripts to interface with iTunes
2) a web app that uses the applescripts to let me control this from anywhere in the house
3) a daemon that uses the applescripts to allow clients to control itunes over tcp/ip
4) clients for any media center software I might be running on my home entertainment system
The great thing is you don't actually have to store the files on the xbox. You can configure it to mount a smb/samba share from a windows or linux box on the local network. Then you can store far more than you ever could on even a 250 gig drive.
If you get a tv tuner card for your pc and have it automatically store the files on a share that is available on your xbox then there is really no need to actually hood the tuner up to the xbox.
For the same reason that there is no "White Entertainment Network"
You insensitive claud.