Yet Postgres integrates with the normal Unix user accounts so I don't have to worry about users and passwords
You can also Kerberos Postgres, but not mysql... That will eventually be the death of mysql on my systems. "when I get around to it" I'm going to kerberized postgres.
Why pay Mac premiums for a server? Macs are great for carrying around (my preference) but I'm not sure why I'd put one in a rack.
The capex is pocket change compared to the labor expense, unless you're doing something absolutely huge or crazy. The "mac premium" is somewhere between one days salary for me, and one days consulting fee. Its to the point where "how quickly you can unpack the shipping box" is a major portion of the labor expense differential between apple vs PC.
I assume the local apple store provides fantastic support to server buyers just as they do for everyone else; for a small business owner this is vital.
I just wish it was a little more user friendly. That was the one thing MySQL had going for it.. dead simple to use and admin.. and I imagine Apple's frontend probably made it even more so. Postgres isn’t as bad as oracle (by a long shot) but it certainly requires a little background reading to use
Don't keep us in suspense... I've not used postgres, always mysql, mostly for tradition more than anything else, but I'm told the main difference between installation of postgres vs mysql is
apt-get install postgresql
instead of
apt-get install mysql-server
OK to be fair the real fun is the libraries and drivers.
It may be that installing from source is hideous, but irrelevant?
I have the opposite fear; every 2 days my cablemodem DHCP will give me a new/48 and I'll have to scramble to update the toaster's firewall, the microwave's DNS AAAA record, my desk clock's NTP server addrs. Don't say ULA will help, all it'll do is confuse the unholy heck out of people with different OS prioritizing different addrs all the time and Really messing up the AAAA records inside and outside..
Company with vested interest in tracking people by their actual names online thinks everyone should use their real names online?
Also their product is selling their viewers... nothing repels viewers more than endless anonymous comment spam. Therefore anonymous is a direct threat to profits in general, not even counting targeted advertising.
Are they trying to get google to buy them and merge with G+ kinda like the whole google-video vs youtube thing?
Of course... two competitors come up with the same philosophy; have to consider, maybe because its correct?
All the car companies seem to have standardized on "righty tighty lefty loosey" WRT to screw threads with only the strangest most required engineering exceptions, not because they're all in a plot against us, but because it just makes sense to manufacture screws that way (assuming the eternal legacy of manual metal lathes being built for right handed machinists)
Perhaps it would make sense to stagger SSDs in different phases of their lifetime to keep simultanious failures at bay, use some burned in drives and some fresh ones.
Trust me, as I guy who's run raid arrays of spinning rust for well over a decade, you REALLY need to do that with old fashioned drives too.
Worst experience in the world is having a RAID-1 with two consecutive serial number drives and both bearings let go at the same time.
i was under the (misguided?) impression that ssd's weren't, as yet, enterprise ready in terms of reliability?
People rationalize what they want. Can you believe there are people that claim Windows is enterprise ready, merely because they want to / have to use it?
I'm worried about your customers that "don't have time" to perform backups. What do they do when their laptop is stolen? Maybe their work and thus their data doesn't have much value.
Or they do everything, including storage, online. I'll publicly admit I don't backup my work laptop... The only reason I have it is to SSH, and I'm not backing up gigs of stuff when all I basically need is "putty", which I already have on a flash drive, and is widely available on the internet.
Customs wants to search my laptop, OK, its basically a vanilla install with putty. And a lot of empty space.
So a company is free to take bigger risks and reap any rewards, and then walk away from any liability? Sounds great if you a business. Sounds less great if you are anyone else, since many of the risks they take are with people's lives.
Well, yeah, thats the whole purpose of a corporate structure. If they didn't own the govt it would be OK, because the govt could regulated them. But as a group, yeah. That is the trade, lots of paperwork, double taxation on profits (at corporate and personal level), lots more regulation and oversight compared to sole proprietorships, in exchange you get limited liability and infinite lifetime.
Step back from the "I hate big oil" and re-read your quote thinking of the mom-and-pop restaurant about two blocks from my house... for that matter pretty much any business in america other than the few tiny sole-proprietorships. If you want to attack big oil, OK attack big oil. But it sounds more like you want to attack the basic structure of almost all business in the USA. You might be painting with a slightly broad brush.
I'm not entirely certain that a sole proprietorship structure can not be made just as corrupt as a corporate structure. It might, in some ways, be easier, and might in some ways be harder. I don't think changing some tax filing paperwork and making the lawyers rich is the outcome you're looking for.
Not really. Its like saying OSHA makes it mandatory for all businesses to provide uniforms for personnel; after all clothing is a safety issue for virtually all non-desk jobs.
'The choice was really simple: Should the C language represent strings as an address + length tuple or just as the address with a magic character (NUL) marking the end?
Why?
Its a false dilemma. You need arbitrary length null terminated strings for streams, and if anyone gave a damn in the last 30 years someone would have grafted an address/length extension on top of C's current stuff.
The mistake was simple binary thinking, both at design time and in the current article.
You don't get to work at the NSA (or any infosec govt. job) with access to classified information and power without a very thorough full-scope background check including polygraph. You're quite mistaken if you think otherwise.
You don't get to work at the NSA (or any infosec govt. job) with access to classified information and power without a very thorough full-scope background check including polygraph. You're quite mistaken if you think otherwise.
Which includes credit checks. I wonder if they're running out of applicants, most of the locals bought $750K shacks and condos that have probably cratered back to normal by now. Think Vegas where the $1M condo wishing prices are now $50K foreclosure sales.
That's exactly the sort of place I'd expect them to be recruiting.
Really? I thought they had an absolute fixation on mathematics, physics, and CS PHDs. Also computer engineer / electrical engineer types. Like, don't both applying unless you've got those diplomas.
Basically the same group the financial companies used to love.
Also I heard horrible things about their recruitment, like they jerk you around for months, if not years, multiple interviews, etc.
They had a rep for having the absolute highest ratio in the world of cool toys vs dilbertian bosses. Dinosaur pens measured in acres, paperwork to requisition a package of bic pens measured in inches, that kind of place.
If all Google cares about is collecting and marketing my data, why the hell should they care if i use a pseudonym or not as long as they know who i am?
Trolling and spamming repels many users, look at the dead comments section at my local newspaper, nothing from comment spammers trying to sell pills to paid political astroturfers, that given a choice of repelling ACs or repelling real users, they made the business decision that they make more dough repelling the ACs.
A charity not interested in profit is welcome to make the opposite decision.
Well since Eric Raymond, who wrote the book, is using Google+ and is blogging about it (entries here, here, here and here), maybe someone should ask him.
You'll get about 100 more points if you ask him on G+
I canceled my FB account... not giving me anything in return
Same here. I used FB hard core, seriously gave it a try, for six months. I was promised I'd get a job, make friends, date hot chicks (boy would my wife be pissed). None of the above happened. I already had a nice job and didn't find a better one. The heavy users are all boring plastic people not real people, think about it, they're writing about it, not doing it. As for the chicks, I was better off with memories of how they looked in HS and college than how they actually look now; holy cow and I thought I have "aged" a lot. I chucked it.
I will never ever have a Google+
Cheater! I've got 5 months to go before I decide to keep or delete.
So far, if I hadn't had G+, I'd... um... Well Trey the pro photographer published some pretty pictures, but he posted so freaking many I had to unfollow him. And Lee Allison holds cooking classes in hangout that I can never attend. And this Sean Bonner guy is hilarious. And about 10% of Wil Wheaton's posts are awesome. Judas Xavier's religious views (or lack there of) match mine more or less perfectly, and he has some kind of media hotline to find cool stories and pix. A ton of Debian Developers are on G+ and they never talk "business" so its all fairly useless to my interests (I admin about four dozen Debian boxes for both pay and pleasure). Rob Malda makes few, high quality posts, but I'm not giving up/. for G+ anytime soon. None of my coworkers (despite this being a tech hotbed) and none of my family have G+ accounts so its purely social and followers for me; the circles functionality is useless for me. That's about it for the first month or so. I got in pretty early. It certainly has picked up over the past weeks?
Has it been worth the cost in time and loss of privacy? Err, well, "shrugs shoulders". I'm gonna be fair and give it another 5 months.
Its bizarrely backwards. Talk about getting it backwards.
The Cathedral was built by anonymous toilers. No one really knows, or frankly cares, who carved and placed that individual block in that unnoticed wall centuries ago. This is an anonymous social network.
The Bazzar is staffed by human beings. Not interchangeable human cogs like a starbucks, but real individuals. Farmer Albert trades corn for Blacksmith Bob's farmtools. The important part is a Bazzar is based on real names with real reputations and a 1:1 match between them. This is the G+ social network model where, for better or worse, your real name attaches to your online reputation. Almost all of the time its better; some of the time, for some people, it could be worse. Oh well.
Why not allow both and let the userbase sort out who they do and do not add on their professional (cathedral) and personal (bazaar) accounts?
google won't let us filter out the comment spammers. They'd have to add a flag for each user as "real" or "anonymous coward" and then add a filter flag so we don't have to see the AC/spammers.
You can control who sees your posts in the circles. You cannot, more or less, control who spams your comments, for better or worse.
Circles are unidirectional, not bidirectional like other services.
A typical failure mode would be I add wiedzmin to my circles, and whenever you post, I spamflood your post comments, and there's nothing you can do about it at this time. Needless to say, I'm not going to behave like that using my real name, so you need not worry. Allowing an infinite collection of ACs in would only make it worse.
More likely accounts would mostly be used for post spam than pure harassment. Browse/. and look at the score -5 to 0 posts for a good idea of what anonymous G+ would mostly look like.
I think it ought to remain a district-level thing, though.
That would make exceptions much simpler. My high school graduating class had two kids that I can think of after this many years, who had a parent teaching at the school. That must be weird to be legally unable to monitor your own kids activities online merely because of your job.
Teachers cannot establish, maintain, or use a work-related website unless it is available to school administrators and the child’s legal custodian, physical custodian, or legal guardian.
Oh wait I can beat that... School has access to lexis-nexis, they now MUST purchase subscriptions for all "legal custodian, physical custodian, or legal guardian"
Teachers cannot establish, maintain, or use a work-related website unless it is available to school administrators and the child’s legal custodian, physical custodian, or legal guardian.
No online attendance system or grading system unless the parents have access? Weird. By attendance system I don't mean the kids attendance, but the teachers attendance (sick days, medical leave, etc). Weird.
Teachers also cannot have a nonwork-related website that allows exclusive access with a current or former student.
For education major K-12 teachers this makes sense, err, sorta. Does this apply to the independent contractor/consultants hired to teach my CS college level courses? What is the liability if a teacher quits, goes into private industry, and unknowingly friends a coworker who was a student decades ago (last name changed due to marriage, etc)?
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Yet Postgres integrates with the normal Unix user accounts so I don't have to worry about users and passwords
You can also Kerberos Postgres, but not mysql... That will eventually be the death of mysql on my systems. "when I get around to it" I'm going to kerberized postgres.
The article speculates that the change is because MySQL is now Oracle property
Can't Oracle fix this problem by offering Oracle on mac hardware?
Why pay Mac premiums for a server? Macs are great for carrying around (my preference) but I'm not sure why I'd put one in a rack.
The capex is pocket change compared to the labor expense, unless you're doing something absolutely huge or crazy. The "mac premium" is somewhere between one days salary for me, and one days consulting fee. Its to the point where "how quickly you can unpack the shipping box" is a major portion of the labor expense differential between apple vs PC.
I assume the local apple store provides fantastic support to server buyers just as they do for everyone else; for a small business owner this is vital.
I just wish it was a little more user friendly. That was the one thing MySQL had going for it.. dead simple to use and admin.. and I imagine Apple's frontend probably made it even more so. Postgres isn’t as bad as oracle (by a long shot) but it certainly requires a little background reading to use
Don't keep us in suspense... I've not used postgres, always mysql, mostly for tradition more than anything else, but I'm told the main difference between installation of postgres vs mysql is
apt-get install postgresql
instead of
apt-get install mysql-server
OK to be fair the real fun is the libraries and drivers.
It may be that installing from source is hideous, but irrelevant?
I have the opposite fear; every 2 days my cablemodem DHCP will give me a new /48 and I'll have to scramble to update the toaster's firewall, the microwave's DNS AAAA record, my desk clock's NTP server addrs. Don't say ULA will help, all it'll do is confuse the unholy heck out of people with different OS prioritizing different addrs all the time and Really messing up the AAAA records inside and outside..
Company with vested interest in tracking people by their actual names online thinks everyone should use their real names online?
Also their product is selling their viewers... nothing repels viewers more than endless anonymous comment spam. Therefore anonymous is a direct threat to profits in general, not even counting targeted advertising.
Are they trying to get google to buy them and merge with G+ kinda like the whole google-video vs youtube thing?
Of course ... two competitors come up with the same philosophy; have to consider, maybe because its correct?
All the car companies seem to have standardized on "righty tighty lefty loosey" WRT to screw threads with only the strangest most required engineering exceptions, not because they're all in a plot against us, but because it just makes sense to manufacture screws that way (assuming the eternal legacy of manual metal lathes being built for right handed machinists)
Perhaps it would make sense to stagger SSDs in different phases of their lifetime to keep simultanious failures at bay, use some burned in drives and some fresh ones.
Trust me, as I guy who's run raid arrays of spinning rust for well over a decade, you REALLY need to do that with old fashioned drives too.
Worst experience in the world is having a RAID-1 with two consecutive serial number drives and both bearings let go at the same time.
i was under the (misguided?) impression that ssd's weren't, as yet, enterprise ready in terms of reliability?
People rationalize what they want. Can you believe there are people that claim Windows is enterprise ready, merely because they want to / have to use it?
I'm worried about your customers that "don't have time" to perform backups. What do they do when their laptop is stolen? Maybe their work and thus their data doesn't have much value.
Or they do everything, including storage, online. I'll publicly admit I don't backup my work laptop... The only reason I have it is to SSH, and I'm not backing up gigs of stuff when all I basically need is "putty", which I already have on a flash drive, and is widely available on the internet.
Customs wants to search my laptop, OK, its basically a vanilla install with putty. And a lot of empty space.
So a company is free to take bigger risks and reap any rewards, and then walk away from any liability? Sounds great if you a business. Sounds less great if you are anyone else, since many of the risks they take are with people's lives.
Well, yeah, thats the whole purpose of a corporate structure. If they didn't own the govt it would be OK, because the govt could regulated them. But as a group, yeah. That is the trade, lots of paperwork, double taxation on profits (at corporate and personal level), lots more regulation and oversight compared to sole proprietorships, in exchange you get limited liability and infinite lifetime.
Step back from the "I hate big oil" and re-read your quote thinking of the mom-and-pop restaurant about two blocks from my house... for that matter pretty much any business in america other than the few tiny sole-proprietorships. If you want to attack big oil, OK attack big oil. But it sounds more like you want to attack the basic structure of almost all business in the USA. You might be painting with a slightly broad brush.
I'm not entirely certain that a sole proprietorship structure can not be made just as corrupt as a corporate structure. It might, in some ways, be easier, and might in some ways be harder. I don't think changing some tax filing paperwork and making the lawyers rich is the outcome you're looking for.
'Nuff Said.
Not really. Its like saying OSHA makes it mandatory for all businesses to provide uniforms for personnel; after all clothing is a safety issue for virtually all non-desk jobs.
'The choice was really simple: Should the C language represent strings as an address + length tuple or just as the address with a magic character (NUL) marking the end?
Why?
Its a false dilemma. You need arbitrary length null terminated strings for streams, and if anyone gave a damn in the last 30 years someone would have grafted an address/length extension on top of C's current stuff.
The mistake was simple binary thinking, both at design time and in the current article.
You don't get to work at the NSA (or any infosec govt. job) with access to classified information and power without a very thorough full-scope background check including polygraph. You're quite mistaken if you think otherwise.
You don't get to work at the NSA (or any infosec govt. job) with access to classified information and power without a very thorough full-scope background check including polygraph. You're quite mistaken if you think otherwise.
Which includes credit checks. I wonder if they're running out of applicants, most of the locals bought $750K shacks and condos that have probably cratered back to normal by now. Think Vegas where the $1M condo wishing prices are now $50K foreclosure sales.
That's exactly the sort of place I'd expect them to be recruiting.
Really? I thought they had an absolute fixation on mathematics, physics, and CS PHDs. Also computer engineer / electrical engineer types. Like, don't both applying unless you've got those diplomas.
Basically the same group the financial companies used to love.
Also I heard horrible things about their recruitment, like they jerk you around for months, if not years, multiple interviews, etc.
They had a rep for having the absolute highest ratio in the world of cool toys vs dilbertian bosses. Dinosaur pens measured in acres, paperwork to requisition a package of bic pens measured in inches, that kind of place.
Its kinda like a big round hole... Its goatse on Mars!
Point remains... "real people" are muzzled on G+ if they permit ACs, because ACs will spamflood any public discussion.
If all Google cares about is collecting and marketing my data, why the hell should they care if i use a pseudonym or not as long as they know who i am?
Trolling and spamming repels many users, look at the dead comments section at my local newspaper, nothing from comment spammers trying to sell pills to paid political astroturfers, that given a choice of repelling ACs or repelling real users, they made the business decision that they make more dough repelling the ACs.
A charity not interested in profit is welcome to make the opposite decision.
Well since Eric Raymond, who wrote the book, is using Google+ and is blogging about it (entries here, here, here and here), maybe someone should ask him.
You'll get about 100 more points if you ask him on G+
https://plus.google.com/108967323530519754654/posts
One of his recent blog / G+ posts is kinda relevant to this discussion:
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=3514
I canceled my FB account ... not giving me anything in return
Same here. I used FB hard core, seriously gave it a try, for six months. I was promised I'd get a job, make friends, date hot chicks (boy would my wife be pissed). None of the above happened. I already had a nice job and didn't find a better one. The heavy users are all boring plastic people not real people, think about it, they're writing about it, not doing it. As for the chicks, I was better off with memories of how they looked in HS and college than how they actually look now; holy cow and I thought I have "aged" a lot. I chucked it.
I will never ever have a Google+
Cheater! I've got 5 months to go before I decide to keep or delete.
So far, if I hadn't had G+, I'd... um... Well Trey the pro photographer published some pretty pictures, but he posted so freaking many I had to unfollow him. And Lee Allison holds cooking classes in hangout that I can never attend. And this Sean Bonner guy is hilarious. And about 10% of Wil Wheaton's posts are awesome. Judas Xavier's religious views (or lack there of) match mine more or less perfectly, and he has some kind of media hotline to find cool stories and pix. A ton of Debian Developers are on G+ and they never talk "business" so its all fairly useless to my interests (I admin about four dozen Debian boxes for both pay and pleasure). Rob Malda makes few, high quality posts, but I'm not giving up /. for G+ anytime soon. None of my coworkers (despite this being a tech hotbed) and none of my family have G+ accounts so its purely social and followers for me; the circles functionality is useless for me. That's about it for the first month or so. I got in pretty early. It certainly has picked up over the past weeks?
Has it been worth the cost in time and loss of privacy? Err, well, "shrugs shoulders". I'm gonna be fair and give it another 5 months.
Its bizarrely backwards. Talk about getting it backwards.
The Cathedral was built by anonymous toilers. No one really knows, or frankly cares, who carved and placed that individual block in that unnoticed wall centuries ago. This is an anonymous social network.
The Bazzar is staffed by human beings. Not interchangeable human cogs like a starbucks, but real individuals. Farmer Albert trades corn for Blacksmith Bob's farmtools. The important part is a Bazzar is based on real names with real reputations and a 1:1 match between them. This is the G+ social network model where, for better or worse, your real name attaches to your online reputation. Almost all of the time its better; some of the time, for some people, it could be worse. Oh well.
Why not allow both and let the userbase sort out who they do and do not add on their professional (cathedral) and personal (bazaar) accounts?
google won't let us filter out the comment spammers. They'd have to add a flag for each user as "real" or "anonymous coward" and then add a filter flag so we don't have to see the AC/spammers.
You can control who sees your posts in the circles. You cannot, more or less, control who spams your comments, for better or worse.
Circles are unidirectional, not bidirectional like other services.
A typical failure mode would be I add wiedzmin to my circles, and whenever you post, I spamflood your post comments, and there's nothing you can do about it at this time. Needless to say, I'm not going to behave like that using my real name, so you need not worry. Allowing an infinite collection of ACs in would only make it worse.
More likely accounts would mostly be used for post spam than pure harassment. Browse /. and look at the score -5 to 0 posts for a good idea of what anonymous G+ would mostly look like.
I think it ought to remain a district-level thing, though.
That would make exceptions much simpler. My high school graduating class had two kids that I can think of after this many years, who had a parent teaching at the school. That must be weird to be legally unable to monitor your own kids activities online merely because of your job.
Teachers cannot establish, maintain, or use a work-related website unless it is available to school administrators and the child’s legal custodian, physical custodian, or legal guardian.
Oh wait I can beat that... School has access to lexis-nexis, they now MUST purchase subscriptions for all "legal custodian, physical custodian, or legal guardian"
Teachers cannot establish, maintain, or use a work-related website unless it is available to school administrators and the child’s legal custodian, physical custodian, or legal guardian.
No online attendance system or grading system unless the parents have access? Weird. By attendance system I don't mean the kids attendance, but the teachers attendance (sick days, medical leave, etc). Weird.
Teachers also cannot have a nonwork-related website that allows exclusive access with a current or former student.
For education major K-12 teachers this makes sense, err, sorta. Does this apply to the independent contractor/consultants hired to teach my CS college level courses? What is the liability if a teacher quits, goes into private industry, and unknowingly friends a coworker who was a student decades ago (last name changed due to marriage, etc)?