Although I understand your post was meant to be funny, I feel an urge to point out that mysql can very well be used in enterprise environments. Me, I administer a mysql database of over 2TB, with one table holding 3.5 billion records, growing some 20 million every day. The thing is still blazingly fast.
And look at the mysql home page. There are some really large companies out there using mysql.
Support is excellent too, and available in all sorts. From the do-it-yourself lookups via google to payed support that will have experts log in to your machine and fix any problem you have.
I say mysql is great. A friend of mine always says "know your database". What he means is: look at the problem you have and select a database for it. For us, that definitly is mysql.
Worse, he seems to be at war with anybody who doesn't share his viewpoints.
I remember reading his homepage a year ago. He was very pissed off that nobody offered him a job although he made such valuable contributions to the OS world.
While I have no idea how valuable his contributions are, it seems to me that a somewhat less polarized stance would have gotten him way further.
Open source is about having a choice. The way Tom Lord goes about promoting his software and crushing others is intimidating. If you get intimidated enough choices are removed. Frankly, I am disgusted by people who use this approach. I therefore am disgusted by Tom Lord, and as a result am turned off to trying arch. So there you have it.
Re:Backups, and being organized in a general way?
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Will the underlying FS layer still be accessible in the general way that it is?
Sure, because the dbfs is implemented in userland. All applications will work as before, including ls.
I wonder if this could be made into a plugin for reiserfs 4.
Like the guys at Ellliott Wave.com are doing: extrapolating social trends, human behaviour and stock markets (as a reflection of these trends). They have been highly successful for the last couple of decades, accurately pinpointing highs and lows in the general mood of the human collective. The way they do this is by researching human behaviour that seems to correspond to a collection of "laws". If the humans are taken out of the equation, I wonder what will result. The stock market might represent a straight line, life might become boring (but nobody will know, except for the few that refuse to participate in the revolution) and there will be nobody breaking the law... because we all are the law.
Just some random thoughts. Heck I might write a novel myself:-)
Ebooks have one thing going for them: instant availability. I do a lot of shopping on Amazon but the one thing that always bothers me with them is the time it takes to get their books shipped to me. If I buy an e-book, it's usually as simple as just downloading it. Some of them I turn into hardcopies, others are just fun to read during long hours in the train.
And then there are a few that are so good I want to have them on my bookshelf. Think of the Napeoleon Hill classic..
Linux has always run on multiple processor architectures which meant that
it wasn't possible for it to make use of any processor specifics
that make it difficult to port it to a new architecture.
Linux runs on both little endian machines line X86 and Alpha and big
endian machines line PPC and SPARC. It has also ran on 64 bit machines for
years like Alpha, SPARC, and MIPS. As a result there was no real challenge to port it to AMD64 (well, maybe overstating here, but basically there were no real difficulties). All that was
needed was a version of that GCC can produce output for AMD64.
Windows (fill in your version here) has always been an x86 only OS. There was a port to Alpha but it was not well supported and only a few souls on the planet had one.
Since then NT/2K/XP focused entirely on the x86. The side effect has been
that it has accumlated thousands of lines of code that will only work on a
32 bit architecture. Microsoft has to hunt down every pointer in their windows code, which is vast. Even
with Microsoft's resources it's going to take them a while before
they have a fully 64bit version of Windows.
I had a hard time getting my own segway. (the p version, the I version costs almost twice as much). Apparently amazon doesn't ship these things outside of the USA. Fortunately, a friend in the US helped out by buying the thing for me (and one for himself I might add) and have it shipped.
You don't want to know what it cost me to have it shipped. (Twice, once from amazon to my friend, and then from my friend to Europe)
I actually thought about setting up a business as a reseller of these things. Fortunately my girlfriend stopped me:-)
Lukas Grunwald? RFID must be big in germany. At work we have a book by another German, Klaus Finkenzeller (RFID Handbook). I'm not really into these things but a collegue of mine told me it's sort of his bible (and then asked me if we could switch jobs)
Performance advantage is not an issue here. These are low budget items and having more performance doesn't matter, a lower price does. As someone correctly pointed out, it's often better to buy an older high-end processor than a newer low-end. For Dell, as a seller, this is different, they can't sell pcs with dated processors, it doesn't fit their image.
Ok, I've heard this before and you're probably right. But isn't it so that they shoud be sued for exactly this, instead of some law which obviously does not apply to them?
Really, the article states that paypal didn't hold up to some regulations which require them to have some kind of service in case a deal goes wrong. I buy something from you, and it appears to be broken. Now I should be able to resolve this through paypal. This might be good for the customer, but from paypal's view this is nuts. They are just an intermediary that handles the monetary transactions.
As an analogy, suppose you pay something using an ATM, you can't honestly expect the bank to resolve your problems with the product you just bought.
It could even launch warnings on the user's screen for a few days ("Hey dummy! Click here to protect yourself!")
This will do nothing about the bandwidth problem. In an ideal world this wouldn't be necessary, but since we're not living in one I prefer this approach where the bandwidth is wasted once per exploit.
Too bad the number of possible exploits is unbounded...
Why don't you CLICK HERE? Maybe some doom3 stuff behind it...
It's much more. You can record and watch the beginning of a movie while the movie is still on. It will learn your viewing habits and automatically record all the shows you tend to watch, for up to 140 hours. It's sort of a search engine for your TV really. Plus you can view your photo's and listen to your music on the TV via the tivo. You'll want one:-)
How about when they're not next to eachother? I'm living in Europe and the prices we have to pay here for *any* kind of hardware are way higher than their American counterparts. A kvm switch for 150 euros anyone? These days that's about $180. But you can buy the exact same device at US shops for less than $100. Sure, shipping costs and taxes will bite you. But still, for us Europeans it generally makes sense to look around in the US. Especially so since most computer parts are small and cost less than $15 to have it shipped.
It's a question of priorities and focus. If you want to become a top EQ player, or doom or whatever, you can do that. Even if you work 60 or 80 hours a week. People with a focus on things they really want generally tend to get what they want.
Of course, the average wage slave doesn't have this focus. Most of them have a wife, children, or a social life perhaps.
But don't dismiss this as impossible. It is amazing what people can accomplish if they really want something.
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I happen to own Secure Architectures with openBSD. While it covers a lot of ground found in other admin books as well, there are some nice things to be found here. Especially the comments on how-not-to-do-it were sometimes... well let's say useful:-)
While I don't know what M$ + NSA put in the closed windows source that could potentially hurt other nations, it is clear that open source doesn't have this problem. If it would have malacious code, it would be open to everybody to fix it. That, I believe is a greater strength than the weakness it represents (which is to infest it with malicious code.)
Actually, it's a Peltier device.
Peltier devices, also known as thermoelectric (TE) modules, are small
solid-state devices that function as heat pumps. A "typical" unit is a few
millimeters thick by a few millimeters to a few centimeters square. It is
a sandwich formed by two ceramic plates with an array of small Bismuth
Telluride cubes ("couples") in between. When a DC current is applied heat
is moved from one side of the device to the other - where it must be removed
with a heatsink. The "cold" side is commonly used to cool an electronic
device such as a microprocessor or a photodetector. If the current is
reversed the device makes an excellent heater.
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Although I understand your post was meant to be funny, I feel an urge to point out that mysql can very well be used in enterprise environments. Me, I administer a mysql database of over 2TB, with one table holding 3.5 billion records, growing some 20 million every day. The thing is still blazingly fast.
And look at the mysql home page. There are some really large companies out there using mysql.
Support is excellent too, and available in all sorts. From the do-it-yourself lookups via google to payed support that will have experts log in to your machine and fix any problem you have.
I say mysql is great. A friend of mine always says "know your database". What he means is: look at the problem you have and select a database for it. For us, that definitly is mysql.
It would be even more scarier if they mentioned your roommate in prison would be a 7ft 300 pound black dude called Bubba.
Worse, he seems to be at war with anybody who doesn't share his viewpoints.
I remember reading his homepage a year ago. He was very pissed off that nobody offered him a job although he made such valuable contributions to the OS world.
While I have no idea how valuable his contributions are, it seems to me that a somewhat less polarized stance would have gotten him way further.
Open source is about having a choice. The way Tom Lord goes about promoting his software and crushing others is intimidating. If you get intimidated enough choices are removed. Frankly, I am disgusted by people who use this approach. I therefore am disgusted by Tom Lord, and as a result am turned off to trying arch. So there you have it.
Will the underlying FS layer still be accessible in the general way that it is?
Sure, because the dbfs is implemented in userland. All applications will work as before, including ls.
I wonder if this could be made into a plugin for reiserfs 4.
Mark.
Like the guys at Ellliott Wave.com are doing: extrapolating social trends, human behaviour and stock markets (as a reflection of these trends). They have been highly successful for the last couple of decades, accurately pinpointing highs and lows in the general mood of the human collective. The way they do this is by researching human behaviour that seems to correspond to a collection of "laws". If the humans are taken out of the equation, I wonder what will result. The stock market might represent a straight line, life might become boring (but nobody will know, except for the few that refuse to participate in the revolution) and there will be nobody breaking the law ... because we all are the law.
:-)
Just some random thoughts. Heck I might write a novel myself
I think Kevin Mitnick can :-) At least he had the time to think about it...
I have also read The art of deception by Mitnick. I think people enjoying KYE will enjoy Mitnicks book as well.
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This one. It's excellent, doesn't cost much. Very clear display. I've had a XP-Pro before, but that thing utterly sucked.
Ebooks have one thing going for them: instant availability. I do a lot of shopping on Amazon but the one thing that always bothers me with them is the time it takes to get their books shipped to me. If I buy an e-book, it's usually as simple as just downloading it. Some of them I turn into hardcopies, others are just fun to read during long hours in the train.
And then there are a few that are so good I want to have them on my bookshelf. Think of the Napeoleon Hill classic..
What's the REAL Reason McDonald's Will Take Your Plastic?
Linux has always run on multiple processor architectures which meant that it wasn't possible for it to make use of any processor specifics that make it difficult to port it to a new architecture. Linux runs on both little endian machines line X86 and Alpha and big endian machines line PPC and SPARC. It has also ran on 64 bit machines for years like Alpha, SPARC, and MIPS. As a result there was no real challenge to port it to AMD64 (well, maybe overstating here, but basically there were no real difficulties). All that was needed was a version of that GCC can produce output for AMD64.
Windows (fill in your version here) has always been an x86 only OS. There was a port to Alpha but it was not well supported and only a few souls on the planet had one. Since then NT/2K/XP focused entirely on the x86. The side effect has been that it has accumlated thousands of lines of code that will only work on a 32 bit architecture. Microsoft has to hunt down every pointer in their windows code, which is vast. Even with Microsoft's resources it's going to take them a while before they have a fully 64bit version of Windows.
Want to know why McDonalds accepts credit cards all of a sudden?
You're now officially my slashdot friend :-)
I had a hard time getting my own segway. (the p version, the I version costs almost twice as much). Apparently amazon doesn't ship these things outside of the USA. Fortunately, a friend in the US helped out by buying the thing for me (and one for himself I might add) and have it shipped.
:-)
You don't want to know what it cost me to have it shipped. (Twice, once from amazon to my friend, and then from my friend to Europe)
I actually thought about setting up a business as a reseller of these things. Fortunately my girlfriend stopped me
Want to know why McDonalds accepts credit cards all of a sudden?
I sure didn't. If I ever got such a message it would be less than seconds until my fingers hit the delete button.
Click on the Mystery Futures Link!
Lukas Grunwald? RFID must be big in germany. At work we have a book by another German, Klaus Finkenzeller (RFID Handbook). I'm not really into these things but a collegue of mine told me it's sort of his bible (and then asked me if we could switch jobs)
Surf the Magical Mystery Wave!
Performance advantage is not an issue here. These are low budget items and having more performance doesn't matter, a lower price does. As someone correctly pointed out, it's often better to buy an older high-end processor than a newer low-end. For Dell, as a seller, this is different, they can't sell pcs with dated processors, it doesn't fit their image.
Click on the Amazing Waves Link!
I thought this was already confirmed by netcraft? :-)
So who is this guy Elliott?
Ok, I've heard this before and you're probably right. But isn't it so that they shoud be sued for exactly this, instead of some law which obviously does not apply to them?
Curious about THIS LINK?
Really, the article states that paypal didn't hold up to some regulations which require them to have some kind of service in case a deal goes wrong. I buy something from you, and it appears to be broken. Now I should be able to resolve this through paypal. This might be good for the customer, but from paypal's view this is nuts. They are just an intermediary that handles the monetary transactions.
As an analogy, suppose you pay something using an ATM, you can't honestly expect the bank to resolve your problems with the product you just bought.
Come on, CLICK HERE. I know you want to do it.
It could even launch warnings on the user's screen for a few days ("Hey dummy! Click here to protect yourself!")
This will do nothing about the bandwidth problem. In an ideal world this wouldn't be necessary, but since we're not living in one I prefer this approach where the bandwidth is wasted once per exploit.
Too bad the number of possible exploits is unbounded...
Why don't you CLICK HERE? Maybe some doom3 stuff behind it...
It's much more. You can record and watch the beginning of a movie while the movie is still on. It will learn your viewing habits and automatically record all the shows you tend to watch, for up to 140 hours. It's sort of a search engine for your TV really. Plus you can view your photo's and listen to your music on the TV via the tivo. You'll want one :-)
Click on the Mystery Futures Link!
How about when they're not next to eachother? I'm living in Europe and the prices we have to pay here for *any* kind of hardware are way higher than their American counterparts. A kvm switch for 150 euros anyone? These days that's about $180. But you can buy the exact same device at US shops for less than $100. Sure, shipping costs and taxes will bite you. But still, for us Europeans it generally makes sense to look around in the US. Especially so since most computer parts are small and cost less than $15 to have it shipped.
Click on the Mystery Futures Link!
It's a question of priorities and focus. If you want to become a top EQ player, or doom or whatever, you can do that. Even if you work 60 or 80 hours a week. People with a focus on things they really want generally tend to get what they want.
Of course, the average wage slave doesn't have this focus. Most of them have a wife, children, or a social life perhaps.
But don't dismiss this as impossible. It is amazing what people can accomplish if they really want something.
Click on the Mystery Futures Link!
I happen to own Secure Architectures with openBSD. While it covers a lot of ground found in other admin books as well, there are some nice things to be found here. Especially the comments on how-not-to-do-it were sometimes... well let's say useful :-)
Click on the Mystery Futures Link!
While I don't know what M$ + NSA put in the closed windows source that could potentially hurt other nations, it is clear that open source doesn't have this problem. If it would have malacious code, it would be open to everybody to fix it. That, I believe is a greater strength than the weakness it represents (which is to infest it with malicious code.)
Click on the Mystery Futures Link!
Actually, it's a Peltier device. Peltier devices, also known as thermoelectric (TE) modules, are small solid-state devices that function as heat pumps. A "typical" unit is a few millimeters thick by a few millimeters to a few centimeters square. It is a sandwich formed by two ceramic plates with an array of small Bismuth Telluride cubes ("couples") in between. When a DC current is applied heat is moved from one side of the device to the other - where it must be removed with a heatsink. The "cold" side is commonly used to cool an electronic device such as a microprocessor or a photodetector. If the current is reversed the device makes an excellent heater.
Click on the Mystery Futures Link!