I recently switched back from Firefox to Maxthon (used to be MyIE2) because the speed difference was just too great.
With all the time I'm saving surfing, I can restore my Windows partitions with Acronis once a month and still be ahead of schedule compared to using Firefox.
Well, first of all, data isn't necessarily lost. It's fairly easy to bring the data in to one server, then push it to the online server. The only server that's going to go down in your scenario is the online server (BECAUSE of high traffic). If it goes down, the caching server isn't necessarily losing anything.
We've got UPS's with enough juice to power all of our racks for a few hours. Add to that the fact that we've got a generator outside that can power them for 3 days, and I think you'll see why I wouldn't worry about that much.
Any IT shop required to keep their products up will have these things in place.
SQL Server Table Variable, and, to a certain extent, derived table, same basic premise...it's in RAM, not on Disk.
One question might be...why write the data directly to a database initially? Why not utilize a faster format, then write to the DB when things have slowed down (i.e. caching)?
Admittedly I haven't read the article, but I am familar with 200+G databases, and there are ways to deal with performance with current DB tech.
I do welcome any new competition, but there are ways of querying data in memory already. Heck, put the whole thing on a RAM Drive...how much data can there be for stock tickers?
Allowed to go as long as they have...by whom? By the volunteers devoting their time to kernel hacking?
Why is it that's the argument everytime someone points out an ongoing or long term issue w/OSS?
Either accept the responsibility or don't. It get's old hearing how much more secure, full featured, etc. etc. OSS is, and then watching people backtrack to "They're doing it in their own time, leave them alone!" whenever something measurably negative arises.
while there is no company to contact, there is in virtually all cases, a publicly available mailing list not to mention SIG and dev lists that are easily searchable which, IMHO, would provide a genuine picture of who you're dealing with.
Do they actually appear in said lists? Do they mention submissions? How do they reply to criticism to their submissions? Not to mention the fact that you could just as easily contact project maintainers for information about the developer. It's not as if OS projects all lack deadlines, goals, etc.
For every position I post I've got 30 plus resume's and typically a week or two to make a decision. I'm not searching through mailing lists looking for a diamond in the rough.
While I have however read through a lot of those lists, I can count the number of OS devs on about 2 fingers that I'd hire after seeing their typical responses.
Imagine however, how those responses would differ had they known employers were combing through them looking for potential hires. Heh
We hired consulting services from someone who'd worked on an open source portal project we rolled out at the office. After he'd touted to my boss how great he was and his fellow OS programmer backed it up my boss asked me to do a technical interview.
My take on him was that he was "ok" technically, with some experience with the product, but lacking severely in overall professional development skills. My boss hired him anyway.
Four months into his contractual employment, after not seeing even ONE usable contribution my boss FINALLY cut the cord. That left me and my team 2 months to do what was originally spec'd at 6 months of development time to produce the end product.
So while I definitely don't doubt good devs can be found working on OS projects, that's not where I go looking for them.
I don't think being involved in OS projects really matters at all.
First of all, there's no company to call to verify other important employee attributes such as attitude, being a team player, ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines, etc.
Another issue is how reliable they are. They could work on an OS project for years, but be the type of person that wants to start working at 10am and call it quits at noon. That doesn't cut it in the real world.
I do play a lot of Unreal Tournament 2004 though (about 3 hours a night) and for whatever reason, I seem to aim better with hitscan weapons (instant hit, unlike rockets, etc.) such as the lightning gun and shock rifle with vsync off than I do with it on. I'm not sure why that is, but it became pretty apparent when I turned it on for a few days.
Since I play with vsync off, I do get tearing from time to time, but I'd rather deal with a little tearing here and there than getting blown to bits 5x more often.
Really, I don't have much of an issue w/spyware/adware, and neither do family members whom I admin their pc's. I run the standard tools; adaware, spybot, sygate (firewall), and avg (antivirus). Couple those with Firefox and Thunderbird and you're generally very safe.
Switching to another OS is at minimal a monumental effort in many cases IMO. I think a larger burden is often on the tech support guy, than the computer user at times.
For instance, I set my Mother up w/a computer when my Father became ill and bedridden. This gave her something enjoyable to pass the time. She learned a few little games and has grown dependent on the computer now for email, minimal surfing, and those games.
I set her up w/Windows because that's what I know. She could have possibly learned Linux (or OSX) just as easily as she learned Windows, but by me not knowing them, she really had no choice.
A consequence of that is that now the only stuff she knows is Windows (usage wise) and some software (including games) that's Windows only. She's now a Windows user from here on out (more than likely).
I'm a Windows user because that's how I make my living (development). From time to time I've tried Linux, but missing a key application, or good hardware driver (ATI Radeon 9700 Pro video card) generally keeps me running back to good old familiar Windows.
Switching seems great, but as you said, mileage may vary. I personally think Mac's are too expensive for the performance they offer coupled with the lack of solid applications when compared to Windows.
I also can't help thinking that switching OS's is simply running from a problem today, that will evolve and catch up to you tomorrow. I guess I'm in the camp thinking it's only a matter of time before Linux and eventually Mac's become much bigger targets for the bad code.
30 is an extreme minimum. Actually, you want it to match your refresh rate (or be higher) at all times. That way you can enable Vsync and get rid of screen tearing.
Also, just because you get 30fps staring a wall, doesn't mean you'll get that when there are 20 rockets, 10 explosions, and 12 players on the screen at one time.
Well, first of all, they don't have to do anything to use the airbags, they're there by default.
As for the locks, it's not really that simple. It's like being on your own to locate and/or purchase locks for your car after the initial car purchase. Every 4th street corner has some guy peddling locks, and there's no governing entity stating which locks work and which locks don't.
From there, you not only have to decide which lock or locks to use, but you have to figure out how to install them, as well as maintain them. How often have you had to do maintenance to the locks on your car?
For you and I and the bulk of the/. crowd it isn't so bad. We're interested in this stuff so we're in-the-know about it. Most people (our parents, siblings, friends, etc.) simply aren't.
I play UT2004 for probably 3hrs a night and haven't seen any post SP2 issues. What version are you running? 3339 was just released yesterday, 3323 didn't show any negative signs either.
If they ditch Tivo, chances are I'll ditch them. I'm not married to my DTV, I'm married to a good looking signal (currently better than my cable provider provides) in addition to my Tivo.
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Thanks. I'll see if I can find it.
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http://www.johnlittle.org/2005/02/life-with-linux
I recently switched back from Firefox to Maxthon (used to be MyIE2) because the speed difference was just too great.
With all the time I'm saving surfing, I can restore my Windows partitions with Acronis once a month and still be ahead of schedule compared to using Firefox.
I was *quoting* the parent.
Well, first of all, data isn't necessarily lost. It's fairly easy to bring the data in to one server, then push it to the online server. The only server that's going to go down in your scenario is the online server (BECAUSE of high traffic). If it goes down, the caching server isn't necessarily losing anything.
We've got UPS's with enough juice to power all of our racks for a few hours. Add to that the fact that we've got a generator outside that can power them for 3 days, and I think you'll see why I wouldn't worry about that much.
Any IT shop required to keep their products up will have these things in place.
SQL Server Table Variable, and, to a certain extent, derived table, same basic premise...it's in RAM, not on Disk.
One question might be...why write the data directly to a database initially? Why not utilize a faster format, then write to the DB when things have slowed down (i.e. caching)?
Admittedly I haven't read the article, but I am familar with 200+G databases, and there are ways to deal with performance with current DB tech.
I do welcome any new competition, but there are ways of querying data in memory already. Heck, put the whole thing on a RAM Drive...how much data can there be for stock tickers?
Either accept the responsibility or don't. It get's old hearing how much more secure, full featured, etc. etc. OSS is, and then watching people backtrack to "They're doing it in their own time, leave them alone!" whenever something measurably negative arises.
Theat to whom? MS in the server market? It already was to some extent. Threat to the desktop market? Not for a LONG time if ever.
And you mention nothing.
That's all the experience I've got with it. That's a 100% failure rate so far isn't it?
While I have however read through a lot of those lists, I can count the number of OS devs on about 2 fingers that I'd hire after seeing their typical responses.
Imagine however, how those responses would differ had they known employers were combing through them looking for potential hires. Heh
Sometimes.
We hired consulting services from someone who'd worked on an open source portal project we rolled out at the office. After he'd touted to my boss how great he was and his fellow OS programmer backed it up my boss asked me to do a technical interview.
My take on him was that he was "ok" technically, with some experience with the product, but lacking severely in overall professional development skills. My boss hired him anyway.
Four months into his contractual employment, after not seeing even ONE usable contribution my boss FINALLY cut the cord. That left me and my team 2 months to do what was originally spec'd at 6 months of development time to produce the end product.
So while I definitely don't doubt good devs can be found working on OS projects, that's not where I go looking for them.
And yes, I do dev hiring now.
I don't think being involved in OS projects really matters at all.
First of all, there's no company to call to verify other important employee attributes such as attitude, being a team player, ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines, etc.
Another issue is how reliable they are. They could work on an OS project for years, but be the type of person that wants to start working at 10am and call it quits at noon. That doesn't cut it in the real world.
16 x 20 not big enough?
Honestly, I probably couldn't explain it well enough for you to understand it, because I'm not sure I fully understand it myself.
I found this which does an ok job of explaining it: http://www.d-silence.com/feature.php?id=255
I do play a lot of Unreal Tournament 2004 though (about 3 hours a night) and for whatever reason, I seem to aim better with hitscan weapons (instant hit, unlike rockets, etc.) such as the lightning gun and shock rifle with vsync off than I do with it on. I'm not sure why that is, but it became pretty apparent when I turned it on for a few days.
Since I play with vsync off, I do get tearing from time to time, but I'd rather deal with a little tearing here and there than getting blown to bits 5x more often.
Really, I don't have much of an issue w/spyware/adware, and neither do family members whom I admin their pc's. I run the standard tools; adaware, spybot, sygate (firewall), and avg (antivirus). Couple those with Firefox and Thunderbird and you're generally very safe.
Switching to another OS is at minimal a monumental effort in many cases IMO. I think a larger burden is often on the tech support guy, than the computer user at times.
For instance, I set my Mother up w/a computer when my Father became ill and bedridden. This gave her something enjoyable to pass the time. She learned a few little games and has grown dependent on the computer now for email, minimal surfing, and those games.
I set her up w/Windows because that's what I know. She could have possibly learned Linux (or OSX) just as easily as she learned Windows, but by me not knowing them, she really had no choice.
A consequence of that is that now the only stuff she knows is Windows (usage wise) and some software (including games) that's Windows only. She's now a Windows user from here on out (more than likely).
I'm a Windows user because that's how I make my living (development). From time to time I've tried Linux, but missing a key application, or good hardware driver (ATI Radeon 9700 Pro video card) generally keeps me running back to good old familiar Windows.
Switching seems great, but as you said, mileage may vary. I personally think Mac's are too expensive for the performance they offer coupled with the lack of solid applications when compared to Windows.
I also can't help thinking that switching OS's is simply running from a problem today, that will evolve and catch up to you tomorrow. I guess I'm in the camp thinking it's only a matter of time before Linux and eventually Mac's become much bigger targets for the bad code.
30 is an extreme minimum. Actually, you want it to match your refresh rate (or be higher) at all times. That way you can enable Vsync and get rid of screen tearing.
Also, just because you get 30fps staring a wall, doesn't mean you'll get that when there are 20 rockets, 10 explosions, and 12 players on the screen at one time.
decent explanation here
Sure, assuming you're willing to give up the plethora of applications you've grown dependent on.
Exactly.
That's probably the best explanation I've heard to date on why NOT to relate computer/internet issues to real life issues.
Well, first of all, they don't have to do anything to use the airbags, they're there by default.
/. crowd it isn't so bad. We're interested in this stuff so we're in-the-know about it. Most people (our parents, siblings, friends, etc.) simply aren't.
As for the locks, it's not really that simple. It's like being on your own to locate and/or purchase locks for your car after the initial car purchase. Every 4th street corner has some guy peddling locks, and there's no governing entity stating which locks work and which locks don't.
From there, you not only have to decide which lock or locks to use, but you have to figure out how to install them, as well as maintain them. How often have you had to do maintenance to the locks on your car?
For you and I and the bulk of the
Your tools look pretty interesting. We're a Cisco shop. I'll forward your link to my network admins.
I play UT2004 for probably 3hrs a night and haven't seen any post SP2 issues. What version are you running? 3339 was just released yesterday, 3323 didn't show any negative signs either.
If they ditch Tivo, chances are I'll ditch them. I'm not married to my DTV, I'm married to a good looking signal (currently better than my cable provider provides) in addition to my Tivo.
So....it's essentially DesktopX?