MySql has one huge advantage over postgresql: ease of administration. creating DB's is dead end easy, the tables are plain files inside directories. Upgrades don't need dump/restore (new postgresql comes out -> time do dump/restore your 5 gb db...)
For hosting companies that is the killer feature, easy to install, easy to administer -> easy to sell...
beware.. they are also just software raid ! (read their FAQ, of course a bit hidden, but they say they use the CPU of the host for the XOR calculation...)
Also they write that their algorithm is patented, and about linux drives.. be carefull of them !
I still would recommend 3ware, fast, stable, and proven linux drives (since at least kernel 2.2, and fully open souce)
I found that 0.7 is much more buggy than 0.5... at least on win32, the new mail notification in the taskbar is broken (no icon), enigmail does not work anymore, cross imap server moving of email did stop working...
Do you really think the represantives would listen to reason ? Here in germany i highly doubt that, our minister did the opposite she said... very clear case of lobbying. As a small company we don't have the money to lobby them.. so if they'll really pass that law in EU, we vote with our money... move the core business out of EU...
I'm not talking about regular update tools. Debian is coming close to this, but from my experience it never worked correctly (install one package you need and which is not in the current distribution, and the "version upgrade" feature of apt is hosed.)
Its more the "upgrades" from the releases. Going from rh 6.2 -> 7.0 takes many hours downtime. Changed too many things, and often i resorted to installing a new version on a second harddisk, then later replace the hd's...
So with gentoo you never have to worry about EOL of the version you installed, it will always be up to date ! Also it gives you the ultimate freedom of choice as a sysadmin (not restricted to the tools your distro is offering you). And as the original poster said, the compile times for servers are really short. A typical install for me on a new machine takes 1/2 day CPU time (much less for my time, as you can ssh to the new box right after you boot the install cd, then remotely install the rest:)
Gentoo may be not perfect for everyone, but for me, having to take care of a couple of servers its ideal:)
One reason for me is that you don't need to "upgrade" the servers anymore. With portage you can allways keep them up to date. No downloading of cd's. No need of having cdroms in the server. No new installation every 18 months (Redhat 6.2->...9.0.. guess how many old redhat cd's are on my desk.. wasted.. ). Easier upgrade paths.
Does anyone know if you can upload some "free" texts (HowTo's, gutenberg, etc) to this device ? The article only mentions BBeB, which has rather tight restrictions... (i'm not permitted to read my books after 2 months ?! )
write good games and i'll buy them. And i guess i'm not the only one who thinks the current state of games is rather sad.. no, i don't want to play the 3456th first person shooter. Be creative... (for example OrbZ.. very interesting simple, and cheap game.. )
Re:$1/CPU hour? Sure!
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even better, reroute the outward port 25 of that computer to something like a/dev/null email server (i.e. acceppt anything, then discard it), so the client actually thinks it send out the emails:)
Most modern unix system can use 128bit MD5 or 160bit SHA1 hash algorithms (instead of the standard 56 bit unix-crypt).. get a better unix and sleep well again:)
soso... maybe the average level of OSNews is so low, BUT... just look at their benchmarks and read carefully. They did benchmark gcc 2.95 against 3.3.1... everyone knows that 3.3 is slower (which might change in 3.4 )
I second this, here in germany you are starting to see bluetooth everywhere, esp. in the mobile phone buisness. Bluetooth adapters for the PC are mainly used to sync mobile phones here...
Besides, Bluetooth ain't easy. I just did play with the linux bluez bluetooth stack last weekend, and did try to sync my mobile phone. The sheer amount of new stuff to learn did amaze me. Its a whole new world for a non-wireless guy like me, for example SDP (service Discovery Protocol), OBEX (binary HTTP), etc. Every service seem to be reinvented for bluetooth...
No. I think people who actually want to do *work* with linux think xfree is slow.
Try win2k/ultraedit/mozilla vs. linux/(kde or gnome editor)/mozilla. The win2k machine is *way* faster.
xfree as it is is slow. the culprit can be the drivers inside xfree (the nvidia driver *suck* for 2D performance !), it could be the broken toolkits (gtk2, qt), it could be something else.
I find it strange that some nvidia guys are re-inventing XAA in their latest drivers to work around some XAA speed problems...
i think its not P2P that is the main reason, but the quicker word of mouth that they are afraid of. thanks to IM and email the message that movie xy sucks gets out way faster... as some other poster did point out allready, #3 has to suck quite hard..
...the chances of getting picked up by another ship within those thirty seconds are 2 to the power of 276709 to one against." - From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - D. Adams
actually in germany they'll take your whole computer system in case of doubt... including monitor, mice, joystick, printer, etc, etc... who knows.. maybe u installed an webserver on the printer;)
the free jabber server (jabberd) is not exactly easy to set up and configure. The documentation for it can be quite confusing for newcomers (for example the DNS settings for the different services, do i *need* to adjust my DNS for this, or are they just internal names).
I think that is what the parent did try to say;)
But I agree with PSI, it's really a great client, even for win32..
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I think openbsd already does that, when you look at the shadow file there you see something like $1$salt$md5sum ...
MySql has one huge advantage over postgresql: ease of administration. creating DB's is dead end easy, the tables are plain files inside directories. Upgrades don't need dump/restore (new postgresql comes out -> time do dump/restore your 5 gb db ...)
...
For hosting companies that is the killer feature, easy to install, easy to administer -> easy to sell
beware .. they are also just software raid ! (read their FAQ, of course a bit hidden, but they say they use the CPU of the host for the XOR calculation ...)
.. be carefull of them !
Also they write that their algorithm is patented, and about linux drives
I still would recommend 3ware, fast, stable, and proven linux drives (since at least kernel 2.2, and fully open souce)
I found that 0.7 is much more buggy than 0.5 ... at least on win32, the new mail notification in the taskbar is broken (no icon), enigmail does not work anymore, cross imap server moving of email did stop working ...
:(
At least for me a huge step backwards from 0.5
its Infection Explorer - the tool to download the latest worm/virus/spyware :)
Do you really think the represantives would listen to reason ? Here in germany i highly doubt that, our minister did the opposite she said ... very clear case of lobbying. .. so if they'll really pass that law in EU, we vote with our money ... move the core business out of EU ...
As a small company we don't have the money to lobby them
I'm not talking about regular update tools. Debian is coming close to this, but from my experience it never worked correctly (install one package you need and which is not in the current distribution, and the "version upgrade" feature of apt is hosed.)
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:)
:)
Its more the "upgrades" from the releases. Going from rh 6.2 -> 7.0 takes many hours downtime. Changed too many things, and often i resorted to installing a new version on a second harddisk, then later replace the hd's
So with gentoo you never have to worry about EOL of the version you installed, it will always be up to date ! Also it gives you the ultimate freedom of choice as a sysadmin (not restricted to the tools your distro is offering you). And as the original poster said, the compile times for servers are really short. A typical install for me on a new machine takes 1/2 day CPU time (much less for my time, as you can ssh to the new box right after you boot the install cd, then remotely install the rest
Gentoo may be not perfect for everyone, but for me, having to take care of a couple of servers its ideal
One reason for me is that you don't need to "upgrade" the servers anymore. With portage you can allways keep them up to date. No downloading of cd's. No need of having cdroms in the server. No new installation every 18 months (Redhat 6.2->...9.0 .. guess how many old redhat cd's are on my desk .. wasted .. ). Easier upgrade paths.
Does anyone know if you can upload some "free" texts (HowTo's, gutenberg, etc) to this device ? The article only mentions BBeB, which has rather tight restrictions ... (i'm not permitted to read my books after 2 months ?! )
write good games and i'll buy them. And i guess i'm not the only one who thinks the current state of games is rather sad .. no, i don't want to play the 3456th first person shooter. Be creative ... (for example OrbZ .. very interesting simple, and cheap game .. )
shortest. joke. ever.
even better, reroute the outward port 25 of that computer to something like a /dev/null email server (i.e. acceppt anything, then discard it), so the client actually thinks it send out the emails :)
Most modern unix system can use 128bit MD5 or 160bit SHA1 hash algorithms (instead of the standard 56 bit unix-crypt) .. get a better unix and sleep well again :)
its been in the kernel since the 2.2 days .. the 2.2 series kernel's are also affected.
read the synopsis: heresoso ... maybe the average level of OSNews is so low, BUT ... just look at their benchmarks and read carefully. They did benchmark gcc 2.95 against 3.3.1 ... everyone knows that 3.3 is slower (which might change in 3.4 )
by linking soundfiles ? natural language processing is also a very hard CS subject ...
I second this, here in germany you are starting to see bluetooth everywhere, esp. in the mobile phone buisness. Bluetooth adapters for the PC are mainly used to sync mobile phones here...
...
Besides, Bluetooth ain't easy. I just did play with the linux bluez bluetooth stack last weekend, and did try to sync my mobile phone. The sheer amount of new stuff to learn did amaze me. Its a whole new world for a non-wireless guy like me, for example SDP (service Discovery Protocol), OBEX (binary HTTP), etc. Every service seem to be reinvented for bluetooth
anyone else remember that 70's movie ? ;) now we only need to find space herpes ;)
No. I think people who actually want to do *work* with linux think xfree is slow.
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Try win2k/ultraedit/mozilla vs. linux/(kde or gnome editor)/mozilla. The win2k machine is *way* faster.
xfree as it is is slow. the culprit can be the drivers inside xfree (the nvidia driver *suck* for 2D performance !), it could be the broken toolkits (gtk2, qt), it could be something else.
I find it strange that some nvidia guys are re-inventing XAA in their latest drivers to work around some XAA speed problems
i think its not P2P that is the main reason, but the quicker word of mouth that they are afraid of. thanks to IM and email the message that movie xy sucks gets out way faster ... as some other poster did point out allready, #3 has to suck quite hard ..
...the chances of getting picked up by another ship within those thirty seconds are 2 to the power of 276709 to one against." - From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - D. Adams
actually in germany they'll take your whole computer system in case of doubt ... ... who knows .. maybe u installed an webserver on the printer ;)
including monitor, mice, joystick, printer, etc, etc
Anyone had success with 2.6.0-test* and LVM2-stable ? LVM2 allways bombs out with some strange compilation errors :(
the free jabber server (jabberd) is not exactly easy to set up and configure. The documentation for it can be quite confusing for newcomers (for example the DNS settings for the different services, do i *need* to adjust my DNS for this, or are they just internal names).
;)
I think that is what the parent did try to say
But I agree with PSI, it's really a great client, even for win32..
huh ? where does gcc involve phyton ?
/usr/bin/gcc
/usr/bin/gcc
/usr/bin/gcc: Not a text file ********
/usr/bin/gcc /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40028000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
# which gcc
# more
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# ldd
libc.so.6 =>