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  1. Re:Much better anyway on Apple Removes MySQL From Lion Server · · Score: 1

    No my main point was that it's was ludicrous to consider the cost of *making postgres work like mysql*. If you want something to work exactly the way mysql works, I would suggest you use mysql.

    It reminds me back in the '90s when I was assigned to teach Java to freshmen. Some of the kids has no experience programming, some had done C++, and others various other languages. Those who had C++ experience had a much more difficult time on average than those with no experience at all.

  2. Re:Much better anyway on Apple Removes MySQL From Lion Server · · Score: 1

    Can't really respond to how hard it is to deal with a corrupt index in postgres--NEVER HAD ONE!

    As for setup when I started, it was ridiculously easy in both mysql and postgres, and annoyingly hard in Oracle and DB2.

  3. Re:Much better anyway on Apple Removes MySQL From Lion Server · · Score: 1

    The command line tools as well as the gui tools are virtually identical in the two products, so neither should be a big concern in considering one over the other.

  4. Re:Much better anyway on Apple Removes MySQL From Lion Server · · Score: 1

    Au contraire--I can use pgadmin3 quite easily with scripts. I do it all the time... You can save logs, etc. and your scripts are still valid if you want to cron job them or whatever...

  5. Re:Much better anyway on Apple Removes MySQL From Lion Server · · Score: 1

    > Yes, postgresql can do thing like mysql, but it has to be be configured in a remote, strangely named config file.

    So you have to add a single comment character in a single file once and forever, in order to get postgres to behave like mysql? Damn that is hard!

  6. Re:Much better anyway on Apple Removes MySQL From Lion Server · · Score: 1

    I have never understood the popularity of MySQL over Postgres. The latter is easier (I administer both), faster, more versatile, etc. The only thing I found better with MySQL is that in some circles, more people use it.

    I worked for a company who switched from Postgres to MySQL a few years back, and I joined just after the switch. I asked why the switch was made, and the only answer i could get was "if we ever had to switch, it was at the right time"... WTF? Meanwhile we lost vital things like transactioning that MySQL lacked at the time...

  7. Re:Silly McCain... on McCain Decries "Hobbits," Accused of Ringbearing · · Score: 1

    You 5-or-less digiters never miss an opportunity to show the rest of us how few digits you have...

  8. All you people who hate Oracle... on Oracle Announces Java SE 7 · · Score: 2

    ... are Johnny-come-latelies. My company got sued by Oracle in 1984.

  9. Re:Isn't this the problem? on Oracle Announces Java SE 7 · · Score: 1

    Which C++?

  10. Re:Digital Data Compression: Music's Procrustean B on Why Your Dad's 30-Year-Old Stereo Sounds Better Than Yours · · Score: 1

    Journalistic research maybe, not original research.

  11. Disappointing on Transparent Lithium-Ion Battery Created · · Score: 1, Funny

    So no transparent aluminum then?

  12. Re:Who Else read that as "aluminum-cement"? on Aluminum-Celmet Could Increase EV Range By 300% · · Score: 1

    And mares eat oats & does eat oats & little lambs eat ivy...

  13. Re:Who Else read that as "aluminum-cement"? on Aluminum-Celmet Could Increase EV Range By 300% · · Score: 1

    Oh, well that's really good for you--you'll be able to talk to your grandchildren...

  14. Re:Who Else read that as "aluminum-cement"? on Aluminum-Celmet Could Increase EV Range By 300% · · Score: 1

    Ah I get it--you speak one of the minor dialects of the language, instead of the dialect with more speakers than all the other ones combined...

  15. Re:More luddite whining... on Congress Voting To Repeal Incandescent Bulb Ban · · Score: 1

    So you flush three times after taking a whiz?

  16. More luddite whining... on Congress Voting To Repeal Incandescent Bulb Ban · · Score: 1

    Why not repeal the mandate to require 1.6 gal/flush toilets?

    We heard the same lame arguments against that back then, but guess what? IT WORKED!!!

  17. Re:Good call on Court to Decide If Man Can Keep His Moon Rock · · Score: 1

    NASA can sue the museum.

  18. Re:Yes, Great... on Scientists Put an End To Smelly Socks · · Score: 1

    Cantillon is the only true, classic lambic brewery remaining. Their fruited lambics are *not* sweet at all. As a beer snob, I must reveal that I have toured the brewery in Brussels, and have photos of myself with the proprietor. Getting it served to me in Brussels was more difficult--ordering in French with an American accent I had to almost sign a disclaimer that I understood it would be extremely acidic...

    On the other side of things, the absolute worst "lambic" (quotes intentional) is Bellevue. Basically effervescent cherry syrup...

  19. Re:Yes, Great... on Scientists Put an End To Smelly Socks · · Score: 2

    My GP says I should not drink so much beer.

  20. Re:Yes, Great... on Scientists Put an End To Smelly Socks · · Score: 5, Informative
  21. Re:Ethically and intellectually challenged... on Court Case To Test GNU GPL · · Score: 1

    Exactly -- If they are denying the applicability of the GPL, then they themselves are copyright violators. unfortunately the copyright holders in this case are not party to the lawsuit.

  22. Re:As cars get more tech... on Nissan LEAF Leaks Speed & Location To RSS Feed · · Score: 1

    While there are some individual cases of older cars (not trucks) having pretty good emissions, anything older than 10 years will not have anything close to the emissions standards new cars have. The '72 Ford F-150 most certainly has a diesel or leaded gasoline, probably the latter. This truck is 40 years old. This means a carburetor that needs frequent tuning (possible) and no catalytic converter at all.

    It's not solely the exhaust you see and/or smell, but also the exhaust you don't.

    The plain fact that the "mileage is hideous" means it's going to have some serious exhaust issues.

  23. Re:As cars get more tech... on Nissan LEAF Leaks Speed & Location To RSS Feed · · Score: 1

    And people who like to breathe will never tailgate you!

  24. Re:MPG? on Nissan LEAF Leaks Speed & Location To RSS Feed · · Score: 2

    He's got an original Insight, the weird looking ones with the narrower rear axle, and the original MPG rating, before the EPA changed how Hybrids' ratings were calculated.

  25. Re:MPG? on Nissan LEAF Leaks Speed & Location To RSS Feed · · Score: 1

    +Inf. 100 miles / 0 gallons.