Quote: However, some IDE drives will report that their write cache is turned off, but still use it and remain unreliable. It is difficult to fine out which drives are lying without extensive testing.
Mod parent up, he's kinda right on spot. These "Y is dying" kids are getting on my nerves. Neither BSD nor Debian will go away in the near future.
Only because linux in general is becoming more kiddy-friendly with shiny, polished up distros like Ubuntu or Fedora (which is a good thing) doesn't mean the proven, stable distros are going away.
What you newbs are are running on your dual-boot desktop is not representative of what people that need to get work done choose as foundation for production systems.
The difference, to me, between furl and delicious is that the latter was created by someone with a clue. Furl gives away on the front-page that they're not going anywhere:
"... the greatest Internet tool since Google!"
Remember kids. Fake testemonials limit your audience to a very certain kind of people. You're not getting the "alpha-geeks" that way.
That really is the biggest plus for the mac - it just works and won't randomly stop doing so like "that other OS". That alone is well worth the money.
Anyone who's ever had to clean up a family members' or friends fucked up wintendo box will agree. The total global worldwide amount of lifetime wasted by humans on Microsoft Windows bugs and design failures deserves a footnote in the history books of this decade...
Yes it is. For me personally it was "too" minimal at that point, I couldn't get used to it. When I tried (very long time ago) it didn't handle transients well (popup dialogs, like mozilla asking the cookie-question or so) and had other problems.
Maybe these things have changed. Well, trying them both takes no more than apt-get install ion3 ratpoison on debian...
You can come even closer. I use ion on my laptop(s) because it saves me lots of mouse-jockeying.
I also had it on my desktop at my last job for about 1yr. When you're working mostly with terminals it's a real productivity bonus to not have to move/resize them around all the time. - Just split/tile the screen the way you like and it's all there. No browser overlapping your "tail -f" on that logfile yet again...
Yup, I'm using it. I like the edge resistance (just slamming windows towards the corner to line them up nicely). I also like the simple, central configuration file. Even tho it's XML-puke it's bearable.
What I'm missing (is it there? have I overlooked it?):
- Send window to desktop N *and* switch there from the context menu
In blackbox I can right-click the titlebar, middle-click "send to N" and
it will take both me and the window there. In openbox I can only send the
window away from the context menu but haven't found a way to switch over at
the same time...
- The window display in TAB-switching is suboptimal. It only displays the
*current* window title/icon, I'd rather want to see a list so I can see
what's next/prev.
Other than that (hope these get fixed sometime) it's my favorite from the *box crowd.
Yuck. What a waste of ressources. Well, if a few seconds of *startup* time is worth it to you, you'd rather invest in fast SCSI drives than wasting your precious RAM like that...
Fine with me. That way I know which of the crapware I just downloaded can be deleted right away without even clicking on it and which makes a sane first impression.
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Also all server rooms, ofcourse, need at least one functional mousetrap.
Seconded. Even his reviews of supposedly boring stuff like a friggin PSU or CPU cooler are unrivaled in entertainment and educational value. Highly recommended.
Last time I fed the slashdot homepage to a XML parser it would literally scream and blow up in a puff of smoke. Thanks for saving me the scream next time.
Well as said. Clicking on the little lock icon is quick and I would actually take the time (since its much quicker than getting the tools for verifying the binary checksum).
A CA-signed certificate (hopefully) contains the name of the putty author or related organization and even if it's obscure ("university of XY" or whatever) I'd certainly remember the correct name after verifying it *once*.
Even if evil.com tries to fool me with SSL it would have to be signed (or my browsers pops a warning) and would carry a different name. Unless verisign (or whoever) issues a very similar name to evil.com this would be enough protection for me. Ofcourse I delegate a lot of trust in verisign that way, hoping they deserve it...
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I learned to never trust the engine and use the programming language to determine if my data where correctly committed/erased, etc.
Quite interesting what MySQL taught you...
So, you seriously perform a SELECT after each and every INSERT or UPDATE?
You do realize how that affects your systems performance?
You can not reliably turn off write caching on IDE disks.
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However, some IDE drives will report that their write cache is turned off, but still use it and remain unreliable. It is difficult to fine out which drives are lying without extensive testing.
That's why people consider MySQL a read-only RDBMS.
If you need a stable system for a server why don't you do what everyone does - roll your own?
For a server there's not much you need (even less than a minimal debian install), I basically go with glibc, core utils and openssl/openssh.
The rest is fluff (aka "Application runtime environment") and has to be custom anyways.
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Mod parent up, he's kinda right on spot.
These "Y is dying" kids are getting on my nerves.
Neither BSD nor Debian will go away in the near future.
Only because linux in general is becoming more kiddy-friendly with shiny, polished up distros like Ubuntu or Fedora (which is a good thing) doesn't mean the proven, stable distros are going away.
What you newbs are are running on your dual-boot desktop is not representative of what people that need to get work done choose as foundation for production systems.
"Big, Evil Corporations" only exist in the movies.
What about Microsoft?
The difference, to me, between furl and delicious is that the latter was created by someone with a clue. Furl gives away on the front-page that they're not going anywhere:
"... the greatest Internet tool since Google!"
Remember kids. Fake testemonials limit your audience to a very certain kind of people. You're not getting the "alpha-geeks" that way.
Well, call me negative, but "Microsoft Productivity Software" is two contradictions in three words to me.
Mod this guy up.
That really is the biggest plus for the mac - it just works and won't randomly stop doing so like "that other OS".
That alone is well worth the money.
Anyone who's ever had to clean up a family members' or friends fucked up wintendo box will agree. The total global worldwide amount of lifetime wasted by humans on Microsoft Windows bugs and design failures deserves a footnote in the history books of this decade...
"Productivity" software?
Last time I checked they only bundled MS Office and worse...
SCNR
Yes it is.
For me personally it was "too" minimal at that point, I couldn't get used to it.
When I tried (very long time ago) it didn't handle transients well (popup dialogs, like mozilla asking the cookie-question or so) and had other problems.
Maybe these things have changed. Well, trying them both takes no more than apt-get install ion3 ratpoison on debian...
You can come even closer.
I use ion on my laptop(s) because it saves me lots of mouse-jockeying.
I also had it on my desktop at my last job for about 1yr. When you're working mostly with terminals it's a real productivity bonus to not have to move/resize them around all the time. - Just split/tile the screen the way you like and it's all there. No browser overlapping your "tail -f" on that logfile yet again...
Yup, I'm using it.
I like the edge resistance (just slamming windows towards the corner to line them up nicely). I also like the simple, central configuration file. Even tho it's XML-puke it's bearable.
What I'm missing (is it there? have I overlooked it?):
- Send window to desktop N *and* switch there from the context menu
In blackbox I can right-click the titlebar, middle-click "send to N" and
it will take both me and the window there. In openbox I can only send the
window away from the context menu but haven't found a way to switch over at
the same time...
- The window display in TAB-switching is suboptimal. It only displays the
*current* window title/icon, I'd rather want to see a list so I can see
what's next/prev.
Other than that (hope these get fixed sometime) it's my favorite from the *box crowd.
Yuck. What a waste of ressources.
Well, if a few seconds of *startup* time is worth it to you, you'd rather invest in fast SCSI drives than wasting your precious RAM like that...
Thanks!
These are definately exciting (the last two are kinda insane!).
Can't wait to get my hands on this thing, craziest eyecandy ev-er...
C'mon, save on a meal/coffee or two and pay the other $20. ;-)
You won't regret it. 768 is so much better than 256...
Fine with me. That way I know which of the crapware I just downloaded can be deleted right away without even clicking on it and which makes a sane first impression.
Also all server rooms, ofcourse, need at least one functional mousetrap.
Seconded. Even his reviews of supposedly boring stuff like a friggin PSU or CPU cooler are unrivaled in entertainment and educational value.
Highly recommended.
Dood. 77. *gasp*
Website traffic ain't as expensive as it used to be.
There's probably not enough pressure left in that area...
Last time I fed the slashdot homepage to a XML parser it would literally scream and blow up in a puff of smoke.
Thanks for saving me the scream next time.
why don't they bother to write documentation so someone can actually use it?
First you complain about "insulting generalizations" and then you come up with your own which is just as false...
Well as said. Clicking on the little lock icon is quick and I would actually take the time (since its much quicker than getting the tools for verifying the binary checksum).
A CA-signed certificate (hopefully) contains the name of the putty author or related organization and even if it's obscure ("university of XY" or whatever) I'd certainly remember the correct name after verifying it *once*.
Even if evil.com tries to fool me with SSL it would have to be signed (or my browsers pops a warning) and would carry a different name.
Unless verisign (or whoever) issues a very similar name to evil.com this would be enough protection for me. Ofcourse I delegate a lot of trust in verisign that way, hoping they deserve it...