But it's also a surefire to track all of the counterfeit bills back to a single machine, and therefore a single counterfeiter.
C'mon. You'd think that a serious counterfeiter would at least make sure that he's not using a printer that's adding these dots? If anyone is actually caught by "connecting the dots" then he's probably so dumb that he'd also be caught by other means anyways...
grouping-symbol matching (wherein when you type a closing grouping symbol it highlights the opening one)
yes. by default you jump to opening/closing bracket by pressing % and with a short script snippet you can add any kind of highlighting you desire.
Does it support correct automatic rewrapping of nested quotations in email and usenet messages?
sure. i have this in my.vimrc, which wraps the current block when i hit w... map w gqap
it can also be done automagically (another 2 lines in your vimrc) but well, i don't like that.
Can it be customized so that when editing a certain type of file, inserting certain characters has additional effects?
yes. i'm not exactly sure why you'd want that (or what it is that you want) but you can add just about any kind of behaviour limited or not limited to certain filetypes.
e.g. this one-liner will give you a closing curly brace whenever you enter an opening one and hit enter (or wait for a moment). conveniently it will not add the closing brace if you type anything other than enter:
If the bubbles and melting is so obvious this should be a no-brainer.
1. Take a photo 2. Put the photo up on a webserver 3. Post the URL as comment to this story on slashdot 4. Mention the URL of that slashdot-comment in a friendly E-Mail to HP customer service
But isn't the very exploit we're discussing a case of plain english text being interpreted by some browsers as HTML markup?
Anyone dealing with HTML knows that browsers tend to deal "gracefully" with malformed code.
Therefor, unless this is your first year of "real world programming", you have probably learned that *all* user input that is supposed to be fed back to other clients as HTML must either have all angle brackets replaced by < and > *or* the stuff must be piped through a (really, really simple) HTML parser.
This little newline stunt is a no-brainer: neither <java script> nor <java\nscript> is an allowed tag - so drop it.
I find it rather amusing that a website that claims to be worth $580 million fails over such a basic (fundamental, elementary, ridiculously obvious) concept...
580... fuckin.. million.... ?
please imagine the sound of my jaw dropping onto the table.
i mean... umm... c'mon... what the hell?
how long does it take to recoup that kind of money only through advertising and membership fees?
i actually googled it up because i thought you had a typo...
but its really over half a friggin billion us dollars. half a billion!!
then i looked at the site. and was stunned even more.
i mean seriously. what kind of crap is this?
this looks like geocities with a bunch of (technically) seriously bad implemented gimmicks slapped on top.
i can understand the community is huge and low-tech people prolly might feel less intimidated by the crappy look than by a slick design. but.... hell... half a billion???
give me a tenth of that and i build you a site better than that, in under two years!@#%
Please give me an example where mySQL is a better choice for an application as opposed to PostgreSQL.
Web applications. Mostly very simple queries (e.g. no joins over more than two tables) with high concurrency, very few writes. MySQL more often than not outperforms postgres in such a scenario. A custom database (e.g. tdb, bdb or even from scratch) can often do it even faster but designing and maintaining such a beast is rarely reasonable (loss of flexibility).
I can only think of two, neither of which point to mySQL being a superior product.
What the heck do you consider a "superior product"? Last time I checked all that mattered was: Use the right tool for the job.
Other things of note: One guy claims he sees a 20%-40% improvement in speed in smaller queries. That is breath-taking
Yea, as breathtaking as me saying "The other day I cut down the response time for this one query in our MySQL DB by 90% just by rephrasing the SQL". In short: your statement is meaningless without context.
And the equivalent (and frankly, better implementation of) table partitioning
Can you elaborate?
Predictions:
Well, I love postgres and I sincerly *hope* that something like that happens, too. But unless the performance improvements are really as drastic as your anecdote suggests I guess the process is going to take a bit longer.
Everybody knows postgres as that one very solid but unfornationally pretty slow and at times cumbersome (vacuum) rdbms. This has also been one of its main strengths: It matures slowly but what works, really works.
This new version will more likely be another babystep into the right direction. Without even looking at it I'm sure that it will still not be as fast as MySQL for those really-dumb apps and it will still lack many of the essential and convenience features Oracle has for the big guys.
I'm not trying to talk postgres down, just have my doubts about your level of enthusiasm.
Fully agreed. This, by the way, also applies to the "consumer" sony ericcsson phones. I have the k700i and it's easily the worst cellphone I have ever owned.
Just a few of the annoyances:
- The SMS tone can not be changed (and is hardly bearable...) - Their "innovative" plug for the charger cable becomes very unreliable very quickly.
I regularly curse in the morning because the cable became lose overnight and the phone didn't charge. - With normal (default) font size the last few digits of the numbers are cut off in all listings (e.g. "missed calls").
Displaying the whole number takes two clicks. - The light can only be toggled in camera mode. Switching to camera mode takes 2-5 seconds. - The camera lens collects dirt. I have no idea why they added a plastic cap for the charger-plug but not
for the lens. - It crashes and (worse) freezes occassionally. I usually don't notice a freeze until I realize it doesn't react
to button presses anymore. Needless to say it doesn't ring when frozen... - The "online"-button is rip-off by design. Push it by accident and well, you're online (which tends to cost money) - Sending photos via MMS or E-Mail hardly ever works. Sometimes it gets through after a few attempts, sometimes it doesn't. - The E-Mail functionality is a joke of it's own ('nuff said!). - The whole UI is sluggish. There's a noticable lag between any keystrokes and the phone reacting.
I could go on and on. Needless to say my next phone will not be a sony-e and I'll spend much more time on evaluating my choices...
Linux clipboarding is leaps and bounds ahead of Windows. It's really only people who don't understand the Linux clipboard that complain about it.
Yeah, right. The incredibly advanced linux clipboard is also why every linux user knows this scenario:
1. Select text to copy 2. Hit CTRL-C (just to be sure!) 3. Go to the destination window 4. Hit middle mouse button... oh... 5. Hit CTRL-V... oh... 6. Curse and go back to 1
While maybe not directly related to the clipboard itself (focus issues or whatever?) this is probably the most annoying bug about copy/paste in linux. It just sucks to repeat such a basic task, it breaks the workflow. And don't tell me you don't know what I'm talking about - I know you do.
You mean HA as in "HAHA"? Okay, I give you that. But if you're in for "high availability" (which, afaik, means at least four nines after the dot) you're most certainly not even considering MS products.
What good is your availability when the application fails randomly?
I remember reading a MS-paper about the IIS ""HA""-solution (read again: "HAHA"). It involved a cluster of at least 4 nodes (IIRC) so that there's always a node left to pick up service when one of the others failed. It was recommended (seriously) to reboot each node daily and there were detailed instructions about how to deal with "hung" nodes - which apparently was expected to happen.
And, well, I have yet to see a piece of serious hardware that would even run the joke from redmond...
I wonder if the CRIA realizes that they're only losing credibility by these ridiculous "studies."
Do they even have any credibility to lose? I mean credibility is *earned*, what did they do in the past to get any?
This whole *IA show is so detached from reality,
Who are they trying to fool with these "studies"? Teachers, parents? Certainly not politicians - it's easier to buy them than to try to convince them of something.
All these actions (be it studies or "music stealing gets you into prison"-ads) only show how desperate they are and how much their "business model" (read: SCAM) depended on the rip-off that was physical media distribution.
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Then you'll like this - even smaller!
but they exist for something as freaking mundane as washing machines.
well, haven't you watched any good mafia-movies?
good counterfeit bills must take a few rounds inside a washing machine to look used!
But it's also a surefire to track all of the counterfeit bills back to a single machine, and therefore a single counterfeiter.
C'mon. You'd think that a serious counterfeiter would at least make sure that he's not using a printer that's adding these dots? If anyone is actually caught by "connecting the dots" then he's probably so dumb that he'd also be caught by other means anyways...
grouping-symbol matching (wherein when you type a closing grouping symbol it highlights the opening one)
.vimrc, which wraps the current block when i hit w ...
yes. by default you jump to opening/closing bracket by pressing % and with a short script snippet you can add any
kind of highlighting you desire.
Does it support correct automatic rewrapping of nested quotations in email and usenet messages?
sure. i have this in my
map w gqap
it can also be done automagically (another 2 lines in your vimrc) but well, i don't like that.
Can it be customized so that when editing a certain type of file, inserting certain characters has additional effects?
yes. i'm not exactly sure why you'd want that (or what it is that you want) but you can add
just about any kind of behaviour limited or not limited to certain filetypes.
e.g. this one-liner will give you a closing curly brace whenever you enter an opening one and hit enter (or wait for a moment). conveniently it will not add the closing brace if you type anything other than enter:
inoremap { {}O
Just use the established, intergalatic standard transmission format: WinZip.
About two-hundred-and-fourty libaries of congress.
If the bubbles and melting is so obvious this should be a no-brainer.
1. Take a photo
2. Put the photo up on a webserver
3. Post the URL as comment to this story on slashdot
4. Mention the URL of that slashdot-comment in a friendly E-Mail to HP customer service
But isn't the very exploit we're discussing a case of plain english text being interpreted by some browsers as HTML markup?
Anyone dealing with HTML knows that browsers tend to deal "gracefully" with malformed code.
Therefor, unless this is your first year of "real world programming", you have probably learned that *all* user input that is supposed to be fed back to other clients as HTML must either have all angle brackets replaced by < and > *or* the stuff must be piped through a (really, really simple) HTML parser.
This little newline stunt is a no-brainer: neither <java script> nor <java\nscript> is an allowed tag - so drop it.
I find it rather amusing that a website that claims to be worth $580 million fails over such a basic (fundamental, elementary, ridiculously obvious) concept...
580... fuckin.. million.... ? please imagine the sound of my jaw dropping onto the table. i mean... umm... c'mon... what the hell? how long does it take to recoup that kind of money only through advertising and membership fees? i actually googled it up because i thought you had a typo... but its really over half a friggin billion us dollars. half a billion!! then i looked at the site. and was stunned even more. i mean seriously. what kind of crap is this? this looks like geocities with a bunch of (technically) seriously bad implemented gimmicks slapped on top. i can understand the community is huge and low-tech people prolly might feel less intimidated by the crappy look than by a slick design. but.... hell... half a billion??? give me a tenth of that and i build you a site better than that, in under two years!@#%
Please give me an example where mySQL is a better choice for an application as opposed to PostgreSQL.
Web applications. Mostly very simple queries (e.g. no joins over more than two tables) with high concurrency, very few writes. MySQL more often than not outperforms postgres in such a scenario. A custom database (e.g. tdb, bdb or even from scratch) can often do it even faster but designing and maintaining such a beast is rarely reasonable (loss of flexibility).
I can only think of two, neither of which point to mySQL being a superior product.
What the heck do you consider a "superior product"?
Last time I checked all that mattered was: Use the right tool for the job.
Other things of note: One guy claims he sees a 20%-40% improvement in speed in smaller queries. That is breath-taking
Yea, as breathtaking as me saying "The other day I cut down the response time for this one query in our MySQL DB by 90% just by rephrasing the SQL". In short: your statement is meaningless without context.
And the equivalent (and frankly, better implementation of) table partitioning
Can you elaborate?
Predictions:
Well, I love postgres and I sincerly *hope* that something like that happens, too.
But unless the performance improvements are really as drastic as your anecdote suggests I guess the process is going to take a bit longer.
Everybody knows postgres as that one very solid but unfornationally pretty slow and at times cumbersome (vacuum) rdbms.
This has also been one of its main strengths: It matures slowly but what works, really works.
This new version will more likely be another babystep into the right direction.
Without even looking at it I'm sure that it will still not be as fast as MySQL for those really-dumb apps and it will
still lack many of the essential and convenience features Oracle has for the big guys.
I'm not trying to talk postgres down, just have my doubts about your level of enthusiasm.
Fully agreed. This, by the way, also applies to the "consumer" sony ericcsson phones.
I have the k700i and it's easily the worst cellphone I have ever owned.
Just a few of the annoyances:
- The SMS tone can not be changed (and is hardly bearable...)
- Their "innovative" plug for the charger cable becomes very unreliable very quickly.
I regularly curse in the morning because the cable became lose overnight and the phone didn't charge.
- With normal (default) font size the last few digits of the numbers are cut off in all listings (e.g. "missed calls").
Displaying the whole number takes two clicks.
- The light can only be toggled in camera mode. Switching to camera mode takes 2-5 seconds.
- The camera lens collects dirt. I have no idea why they added a plastic cap for the charger-plug but not
for the lens.
- It crashes and (worse) freezes occassionally. I usually don't notice a freeze until I realize it doesn't react
to button presses anymore. Needless to say it doesn't ring when frozen...
- The "online"-button is rip-off by design. Push it by accident and well, you're online (which tends to cost money)
- Sending photos via MMS or E-Mail hardly ever works. Sometimes it gets through after a few attempts, sometimes it doesn't.
- The E-Mail functionality is a joke of it's own ('nuff said!).
- The whole UI is sluggish. There's a noticable lag between any keystrokes and the phone reacting.
I could go on and on. Needless to say my next phone will not be a sony-e and I'll spend much more time on
evaluating my choices...
Linux clipboarding is leaps and bounds ahead of Windows. It's really only people who don't understand the Linux clipboard that complain about it.
... oh...
Yeah, right.
The incredibly advanced linux clipboard is also why every linux user knows this scenario:
1. Select text to copy
2. Hit CTRL-C (just to be sure!)
3. Go to the destination window
4. Hit middle mouse button... oh...
5. Hit CTRL-V
6. Curse and go back to 1
While maybe not directly related to the clipboard itself (focus issues or whatever?) this is probably the most annoying bug about copy/paste in linux. It just sucks to repeat such a basic task, it breaks the workflow.
And don't tell me you don't know what I'm talking about - I know you do.
MSCS is now quite a decent HA solution
You mean HA as in "HAHA"? Okay, I give you that.
But if you're in for "high availability" (which, afaik, means at least four nines after the dot) you're most certainly not even considering MS products.
What good is your availability when the application fails randomly?
I remember reading a MS-paper about the IIS ""HA""-solution (read again: "HAHA").
It involved a cluster of at least 4 nodes (IIRC) so that there's always a node left to pick up service when one of the others failed. It was recommended (seriously) to reboot each node daily and there were detailed instructions about how to deal with "hung" nodes - which apparently was expected to happen.
And, well, I have yet to see a piece of serious hardware that would even run the joke from redmond...
Actually, even nntp is still a one2many deal. What you want for large files is many2many, it's called bittorrent.
Even dual Opterons with 4 GBs of RAM cannot handle some of the Excel spreadsheets used in the financial industry.
I doubt anyone is doing that to poor little excel.
Remember it can only handle 65k rows... Oh and then it crashes.
Excel dealing with a 4G spreadsheet is like a squirrel wrestling a SUV...
mmmmmmm. soft and cuddly x-rays. yeah baby!
I wonder if the CRIA realizes that they're only losing credibility by these ridiculous "studies."
Do they even have any credibility to lose?
I mean credibility is *earned*, what did they do in the past to get any?
This whole *IA show is so detached from reality,
Who are they trying to fool with these "studies"? Teachers, parents?
Certainly not politicians - it's easier to buy them than to try to convince them of something.
All these actions (be it studies or "music stealing gets you into prison"-ads) only show how
desperate they are and how much their "business model" (read: SCAM) depended on the rip-off that
was physical media distribution.
Great ideas, both of you.
Now, who is gonna back it up with a Firefox plugin?
I think this would catch on pretty damn quickly...
Well, I think OP was referring to postgres. count(*) performs really, really bad there.
nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!111one
Internet bites worm.
Signed,
In Soviet Russia
did anyone else read ...and the company's clown, Windows."
?
well, and here's the third way to do it:
xterm -si
Care to elaborate?
What about xterms scrollback support is broken?
Scrolls back just fine for me...