but you have to remember that mysql is a low end database, it does not have all the whiz bang gadgetery that mssql or oracle has, it is like comparing a motobike to a mac truck. that said, what about other oss dbs, like firebird or postgreSQL? they would both make a better comparison
Yes I know I can do that, but I dont as i rarely use XP and it would confuse the rest of my family, but it would be better if the programs were already organized like that. It is a commen sense thing, but most people don't konow how to change their start menu. I am not talking about this from a Power users perspective but a general users perspective.
What about the start menu? at home i have to run the screen at 1024x768 to fit the program files to the screen, at 800x600 some programs cannot fit, change it to what linux has, sorted by type of program rather than by publisher
I know this is not up to MS but to the software publishers, but if microsoft started doing it others will tag allong
I tend to disagree, say you have a couple of tabs open, ie. a google search and slashdot, you type in your search ('hot grits'), and go read slashdot for a couple of minuts. As slashdot is text heavy, it is not really going to be using up your bandwith, you jump back to your search, and as soon as you click on a link the website comes up. This is not a feature that will be always used, as if you are downloading pictures or there will not be much time left for prefetching, but this will speed up loading some of the time.
I see your point, and i feel my first comment was not clear, some years ago (96) we had a m assacre at port arthur (35 dead) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_Massacre ) so we changed our gun laws to make it less likely for it to happen again, in switzerland, they do not have a problem with gun crime, therfore their laws do not need changing, but in america with the great number of gun deaths, maybe making the guns harder to purchace would be a easy way on cutting down crime, as IMHO they (as a society) are not mature/responsible enough to own guns.
I know guns don't kill people, people kill people, but by making guns harder to buy (as in under licence) may make america's high homicide rate go down. I am not against gun ownership, but i want to know that if somone owns a gun they are responsible enough to own it.
Weapon (ironic username, isn't it, but it has nothing to do with guns)
Why not blame the 2nd Amendment, after all it has served it's purpose, USA have a large army, they don't need most citizens to be able to own guns.
Here in Australia, you need to be a member of a gun club, or require a gun for work to own a gun, you must keep the gun in a safe, and can only carry it in public going to or from a club meeting (or at work, if it is for work). Not only that but you cannot own semi's or autos, etc etc. we dont have large amounts of shooting murders like you do in the states.
Better yet in some install programs the licence text appears after the agree button (long enough for you to notice it) i cannot remember what software this was, but you would think a install program would make sure that when i clicked agree i was agreeing to their terms and conditions.
Also if a person under 18 (a minor, like my brother) agrees to a licence is it enforcable? I would imagine parts of the agreement are not enfocable as a minor cannot sign away their rights (but IANAL).
Do you count microsoft software as third party software? I have a Microsoft Strategic Comander (a big left hand mouse designed for strategy games) and the software for it needs to be run as admin on XP (not even runas, but loged in as admin). It may have somthing to do with the fact that the hardware is quite old, and that it acts as a virtual keyboard (assign keys to buttons on the fly), but still it was not writen corectly
I run Fedora core 3 (and core 2 before that) and yum is really great. the only problems i have had are (really only with java) non redistributables that must be packaged but that was not hard (download rpm header, download stuff from sun, build rpm install rpm). the only other downside is no gui, but the command line works fine anyway.
Installing yum probebly would not be a problem, but finding repositries for you distro might be.
Labor today called for an investigation into Prime Minister John Howard's use of unsolicited emails, or spam.
Mr Howard has hired his son Tim's company, Net Harbour, to send emails to voters in the prime minister's blue ribbon Sydney seat of Bennelong.
Labor's technology spokeswoman Kate Lundy said the government's own laws, which came into effect four months ago, banned commercial spamming.
But the laws exempt political parties and charities from using spam, which has become a crucial tool in communicating with voters.
"The prime minister has breached the spirit, if not the letter of anti-spam laws," Senator Lundy said in a statement.
"John Howard's government banned commercial spamming this year, but then the prime minister goes ahead and spams the public for political benefit - this is a clear case of double standards."
Senator Lundy said the Australian Communications Authority should investigate Mr Howard's use of spam.
But she said it was questionable whether engaging a commercial company to send spam breached the laws. Advertisement Advertisement
"Mr Howard obviously thinks he is either above the law or is cynically exploiting a loophole against the spirit and principle of a law his own government has been touting as evidence of its social responsibility for the past year," she said.
Mr Howard told Hobart ABC radio today he had personally funded the campaign, which bore his authorisation, but would not disclose how much it cost.
"That is my business because it's not public money, it's private Howard money and I don't intend to disclose that because it's a private matter," Mr Howard said.
But he said he had disclosed the cost of it to the NSW division of the Liberal Party.
Mr Howard said he was excited about the fact his son had launched a business.
"I'm very proud of the fact that my son has started a small business in his 20s and I get a real buzz out of the fact that he's prepared to have a go in small business," Mr Howard said.
"That is what the future of this country is all about."
AAP
from the chaser decides (they later went to tim's business and dumped a wheelbarow full of spam there the canned variety) http://www.abc.net.au/tv/chaser/txt/s121 1071.htm
"CRAIG: Live from the nation's capital, you're watching the Chaser Decides, as both the Coalition and Labor continue to vie for underdog status.
JULIAN: It's like a broken record, isn't it? But if we just have a look at the actual polls, you'll see the Coalition there, very much the leading underdog at this stage.
CHRIS: Yeah, not good figures for Labor - they're clearly the underdog for underdog status.
CRAIG: Well, to another key seat now this election... the Prime Minister's own electorate of Bennelong. Can we just have a look that?
JULIAN: Sure, Bennelong's on Sydney's north shore...
JULIAN: Oh, bloody hell! Whenever I do anything about Bennelong, I get bombarded with spam from Tim Howard!
CHRIS: I can't believe Howard's paying his own son to spam his electorate.
ANDREW: I've got more mail from them lately than from the Bank of Nigeria!
CRAIG: Well, given how fond of spam Howard's campaign team seems to be... we thought it might be nice to pay them a visit, and give them some spam in return.
CHRIS: And if you'd like to register your support for Tim Howard's spam campaign, then why not email to him - every two minutes at his work address, tim@netharbour.com.au
JULIAN: Or why not sign him up to spam for the next ten years? I know I have.
ANDREW Gee, it's lucky for him that no one knows his private email address is timhow99@yahoo.com.au.
Not so at the IT section at my uni, they do have alot of solaris but they also use OpenBSD, NetBSD and RedHat 7.2 Here is a quick rundown of there servers: (from http://studenthelp.itee.uq.edu.au/itig/ )
Core Servers:
The following are core servers which support the staff, SVRC, Information Environments at UQI and student networks:
1 x Firewall, gateway router with gigabit network interface running OpenBSD, ipfilter and gated, providing perimeter network security and internetwork routing.
2 x Bridges running OpenBSD 2.9, ipfilter, ipsec and gated, providing Information Environments staff at UQI transparent access to the ITEE staff network.
1 x Proxy server with ~100GB of SCSI hard disk space and gigabit networking running Redhat Linux 7.2, squid and extensive logging and monitoring software, providing a fast local internet cache and reducing ITEE's (very large) IP traffic bills from ITS.
1 x Remote access server running FreeBSD providing mindterm, ssh and skey remote access SSL IMAP, POP, SMTP and NNTP tunnels.
1 x License server running SPARC Solaris 8, providing software license serving for a dozen or so software packages.
1 x Print server running SPARC Solaris 8, providing print spooling services and page counting for 30+ network printers.
3 x Web Servers running SPARC Solaris 8, providing internal and public web sites, room/equipment booking server, mailing list server, job tracking server, personal and subject web sites, etc.
3 x Name/YP servers running SPARC Solaris 8, providing DNS, DHCP, NIS and syslog services.
1 x Security/network management server running SPARC Solaris 8, radius, cricket, SNMP, FWTK, HP jetadmin providing network andá printer monitoring, and remote and wireless access authentication services.
1 x News and Elvin server running RedHat Linux 6.2, providing local Usenet news feed and Elvin notification/messaging service.
1 x Dual CPU PIII Xeon 866MHz development server with 1GB ECC Memory, gigabit networking, RAID1 mirrored system disks, triple redundant and uninterruptible power supplies, running RedHat Linux 7.2-XFS.
1 x Backup server, gigabit network interface, 640GB of IDE disk space a dual drive, 20 tape LTO changer, running RedHat Linux 7.2-XFS, amanda
Don't forget to back up/etc, but when the drive fails and you reinstall don't just copy it back, only copy files you remeber chaging like fstab, iptables exports or smb.conf
Uni libraries did this to me, they block all mail or anything with mail in the subject line a real pain, they even block gmail.com, but the dont block gmail.google.com, so i can still check my e-mail
No i actualy did a cut/paste from some examples from a lecture! except i had to remove all the intentation for one of the slashdot filters (i think it was whitespace)
I am a 1st year IT/Engineering student, i just did a course in scheme, one of the things we just did was linked lists, here is some of the code from the lectures (i can't post a link because it requires a login), but i can't program c# and i live in australia!
(sory about the formating & indenting, blame slashdot).;;;;;; COMP1502 Lecture 9, Demo 3;; Ordered Association Lists;;;; Assume that keys are numbers for ordering
(define make-alist (lambda () (list 'alist)));; alist selectors and predicates
I wonder what sort of performance Ingres has compared to mySQL (lets hope its better), microsoft SQL server and oracle? I know that mySQL is not all that good performance wize, and performace is a important thing with dbms's so for Ingres to be sucessful, i hope they have better peformance than mySQL (no offence ment towards mySQL)
Does this mean IE is spy-ware? I don't mean to troll or flame but with the odd vunribilty in IE/WIN, it does seem posible except for the part that says:
In issuing regulations to carry out this paragraph, the Commission shall distinguish spyware programs from other commonly used computer programs used to share information among computers in an organized network of computers.
so if you have a program you installed that isn't commeny used eg. beta testing, it is posibly violating the law, what about User Agent? that is personal information? Also does this mean if the program is commen enough it is not aganst the law, ie. if everybody used kazza insted of kazza lite?
Me thinks somone opened a big can of man eating worms.
My uni does this, our mozilla directory is located on our network drives (though it means that you disable your disk cache) so our profiles follow us arround, some computers don't have mozilla installed but when you install it all your settings (inc. proxy) are used.
Dave ps. my uni is uq and this is in the itee department (itee.uq.edu.au)
One wonders wheather this has anything to do with David Hicks, a australian citizen who is being tried in the us (in guntanimo bay) for receving terrorist training, our government, until a couble of days ago (like sunday or monday) refused to lift a finger, but now they are making a effort to get him back, to be tried in australia in a propper courtroom not an ammerican miltarty tribunal (it only started on the weekend IIRC. Maybe our governments acction is because we have a election comming up in october. but anyway maybe the australian government it trying to "Bribe" the US gov to get him back.
No, they only redistribut internaly and OS means that if i give you a binary i have to give you access to the source, so unless they sold it to other countries the enemy will not be able to download it
Slashdot Mirror
but you have to remember that mysql is a low end database, it does not have all the whiz bang gadgetery that mssql or oracle has, it is like comparing a motobike to a mac truck. that said, what about other oss dbs, like firebird or postgreSQL? they would both make a better comparison
Weapon
Yes I know I can do that, but I dont as i rarely use XP and it would confuse the rest of my family, but it would be better if the programs were already organized like that. It is a commen sense thing, but most people don't konow how to change their start menu. I am not talking about this from a Power users perspective but a general users perspective.
Weapon
What about the start menu? at home i have to run the screen at 1024x768 to fit the program files to the screen, at 800x600 some programs cannot fit, change it to what linux has, sorted by type of program rather than by publisher
I know this is not up to MS but to the software publishers, but if microsoft started doing it others will tag allong
Weapon
I tend to disagree, say you have a couple of tabs open, ie. a google search and slashdot, you type in your search ('hot grits'), and go read slashdot for a couple of minuts. As slashdot is text heavy, it is not really going to be using up your bandwith, you jump back to your search, and as soon as you click on a link the website comes up. This is not a feature that will be always used, as if you are downloading pictures or there will not be much time left for prefetching, but this will speed up loading some of the time.
Weapon
I see your point, and i feel my first comment was not clear, some years ago (96) we had a m assacre at port arthur (35 dead) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Arthur_Massacre ) so we changed our gun laws to make it less likely for it to happen again, in switzerland, they do not have a problem with gun crime, therfore their laws do not need changing, but in america with the great number of gun deaths, maybe making the guns harder to purchace would be a easy way on cutting down crime, as IMHO they (as a society) are not mature/responsible enough to own guns.
I know guns don't kill people, people kill people, but by making guns harder to buy (as in under licence) may make america's high homicide rate go down. I am not against gun ownership, but i want to know that if somone owns a gun they are responsible enough to own it.
Weapon (ironic username, isn't it, but it has nothing to do with guns)
Why not blame the 2nd Amendment, after all it has served it's purpose, USA have a large army, they don't need most citizens to be able to own guns.
Here in Australia, you need to be a member of a gun club, or require a gun for work to own a gun, you must keep the gun in a safe, and can only carry it in public going to or from a club meeting (or at work, if it is for work). Not only that but you cannot own semi's or autos, etc etc. we dont have large amounts of shooting murders like you do in the states.
Weapon
Better yet in some install programs the licence text appears after the agree button (long enough for you to notice it) i cannot remember what software this was, but you would think a install program would make sure that when i clicked agree i was agreeing to their terms and conditions.
Also if a person under 18 (a minor, like my brother) agrees to a licence is it enforcable? I would imagine parts of the agreement are not enfocable as a minor cannot sign away their rights (but IANAL).
Weapon
Do you count microsoft software as third party software? I have a Microsoft Strategic Comander (a big left hand mouse designed for strategy games) and the software for it needs to be run as admin on XP (not even runas, but loged in as admin). It may have somthing to do with the fact that the hardware is quite old, and that it acts as a virtual keyboard (assign keys to buttons on the fly), but still it was not writen corectly
Weapon
I run Fedora core 3 (and core 2 before that) and yum is really great. the only problems i have had are (really only with java) non redistributables that must be packaged but that was not hard (download rpm header, download stuff from sun, build rpm install rpm). the only other downside is no gui, but the command line works fine anyway.
Installing yum probebly would not be a problem, but finding repositries for you distro might be.
I would not trust our government:
& ie =utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=tim+howard+spam
6 77 4.html?oneclick=true
1 1071.htm
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient
http://smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/27/109351805
Labor today called for an investigation into Prime Minister John Howard's use of unsolicited emails, or spam.
Mr Howard has hired his son Tim's company, Net Harbour, to send emails to voters in the prime minister's blue ribbon Sydney seat of Bennelong.
Labor's technology spokeswoman Kate Lundy said the government's own laws, which came into effect four months ago, banned commercial spamming.
But the laws exempt political parties and charities from using spam, which has become a crucial tool in communicating with voters.
"The prime minister has breached the spirit, if not the letter of anti-spam laws," Senator Lundy said in a statement.
"John Howard's government banned commercial spamming this year, but then the prime minister goes ahead and spams the public for political benefit - this is a clear case of double standards."
Senator Lundy said the Australian Communications Authority should investigate Mr Howard's use of spam.
But she said it was questionable whether engaging a commercial company to send spam breached the laws.
Advertisement Advertisement
"Mr Howard obviously thinks he is either above the law or is cynically exploiting a loophole against the spirit and principle of a law his own government has been touting as evidence of its social responsibility for the past year," she said.
Mr Howard told Hobart ABC radio today he had personally funded the campaign, which bore his authorisation, but would not disclose how much it cost.
"That is my business because it's not public money, it's private Howard money and I don't intend to disclose that because it's a private matter," Mr Howard said.
But he said he had disclosed the cost of it to the NSW division of the Liberal Party.
Mr Howard said he was excited about the fact his son had launched a business.
"I'm very proud of the fact that my son has started a small business in his 20s and I get a real buzz out of the fact that he's prepared to have a go in small business," Mr Howard said.
"That is what the future of this country is all about."
AAP
from the chaser decides (they later went to tim's business and dumped a wheelbarow full of spam there the canned variety)
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/chaser/txt/s12
"CRAIG: Live from the nation's capital, you're watching the Chaser Decides, as both the Coalition and Labor continue to vie for underdog status.
JULIAN: It's like a broken record, isn't it? But if we just have a look at the actual polls, you'll see the Coalition there, very much the leading underdog at this stage.
CHRIS: Yeah, not good figures for Labor - they're clearly the underdog for underdog status.
CRAIG: Well, to another key seat now this election... the Prime Minister's own electorate of Bennelong. Can we just have a look that?
JULIAN: Sure, Bennelong's on Sydney's north shore...
JULIAN: Oh, bloody hell! Whenever I do anything about Bennelong, I get bombarded with spam from Tim Howard!
CHRIS: I can't believe Howard's paying his own son to spam his electorate.
ANDREW: I've got more mail from them lately than from the Bank of Nigeria!
CRAIG: Well, given how fond of spam Howard's campaign team seems to be... we thought it might be nice to pay them a visit, and give them some spam in return.
CHRIS: And if you'd like to register your support for Tim Howard's spam campaign, then why not email to him - every two minutes at his work address, tim@netharbour.com.au
JULIAN: Or why not sign him up to spam for the next ten years? I know I have.
ANDREW
Gee, it's lucky for him that no one knows his private email address is timhow99@yahoo.com.au.
Not so at the IT section at my uni, they do have alot of solaris but they also use OpenBSD, NetBSD and RedHat 7.2 Here is a quick rundown of there servers: (from http://studenthelp.itee.uq.edu.au/itig/ )
Core Servers:
The following are core servers which support the staff, SVRC, Information Environments at UQI and student networks:
1 x Firewall, gateway router with gigabit network interface running OpenBSD, ipfilter and gated, providing perimeter network security and internetwork routing.
2 x Bridges running OpenBSD 2.9, ipfilter, ipsec and gated, providing Information Environments staff at UQI transparent access to the ITEE staff network.
1 x Proxy server with ~100GB of SCSI hard disk space and gigabit networking running Redhat Linux 7.2, squid and extensive logging and monitoring software, providing a fast local internet cache and reducing ITEE's (very large) IP traffic bills from ITS.
1 x Remote access server running FreeBSD providing mindterm, ssh and skey remote access SSL IMAP, POP, SMTP and NNTP tunnels.
1 x License server running SPARC Solaris 8, providing software license serving for a dozen or so software packages.
1 x Print server running SPARC Solaris 8, providing print spooling services and page counting for 30+ network printers.
3 x Web Servers running SPARC Solaris 8, providing internal and public web sites, room/equipment booking server, mailing list server, job tracking server, personal and subject web sites, etc.
3 x Name/YP servers running SPARC Solaris 8, providing DNS, DHCP, NIS and syslog services.
1 x Security/network management server running SPARC Solaris 8, radius, cricket, SNMP, FWTK, HP jetadmin providing network andá printer monitoring, and remote and wireless access authentication services.
1 x News and Elvin server running RedHat Linux 6.2, providing local Usenet news feed and Elvin notification/messaging service.
1 x Dual CPU PIII Xeon 866MHz development server with 1GB ECC Memory, gigabit networking, RAID1 mirrored system disks, triple redundant and uninterruptible power supplies, running RedHat Linux 7.2-XFS.
1 x Backup server, gigabit network interface, 640GB of IDE disk space a dual drive, 20 tape LTO changer, running RedHat Linux 7.2-XFS, amanda
Don't forget to back up /etc, but when the drive fails and you reinstall don't just copy it back, only copy files you remeber chaging like fstab, iptables exports or smb.conf
Weapon
What about IE's Temporary Internet Files or Mozilla/Firefox's Cache? they can last for ages?
Weapon
You have not played tuxracer enough
Weapon
Uni libraries did this to me, they block all mail or anything with mail in the subject line a real pain, they even block gmail.com, but the dont block gmail.google.com, so i can still check my e-mail
weapon
No i actualy did a cut/paste from some examples from a lecture! except i had to remove all the intentation for one of the slashdot filters (i think it was whitespace)
I am a 1st year IT/Engineering student, i just did a course in scheme, one of the things we just did was linked lists, here is some of the code from the lectures (i can't post a link because it requires a login), but i can't program c# and i live in australia!
;; ;; ;; COMP1502 Lecture 9, Demo 3 ;; Ordered Association Lists ;; ;; Assume that keys are numbers for ordering
;; alist selectors and predicates
;; (define x (make-alist)) ;; (insert! 5 'e x) ;; (insert! 2 'b x) ;; (insert! 4 'd x) ;; (insert! 7 'g x) ;; (lookup 6 x) ;; (lookup 5 x) ;; x
(sory about the formating & indenting, blame slashdot).
(define make-alist
(lambda ()
(list 'alist)))
(define header?
(lambda (alist)
(eq? (car alist) 'alist)))
(define curr-key caar)
(define next-key caadr)
(define insert!
(lambda (key value alist)
(cond ((and (or (header? alist)
( (curr-key alist) key))
(or (null? (cdr alist))
( key (next-key alist))))
(set-cdr! alist (cons (cons key value) (cdr alist))) 'ok)
((and (not (header? alist)) (= key (curr-key alist)))
(set-cdr! (car alist) value))
(else (insert! key value (cdr alist))))))
(define assoc
(lambda (key records)
(cond ((null? records) 'no-match)
((equal? (caar records) key) (car records))
(else (assoc key (cdr records))))))
(define lookup
(lambda (key alist)
(let ((record (assoc key (cdr alist))))
(if (eq? 'no-match record) 'no-match (cdr record)))))
I wonder what sort of performance Ingres has compared to mySQL (lets hope its better), microsoft SQL server and oracle? I know that mySQL is not all that good performance wize, and performace is a important thing with dbms's so for Ingres to be sucessful, i hope they have better peformance than mySQL (no offence ment towards mySQL)
Weapon
I actualy downloaded it over dialup, about 3 weeks downloading all night, but then a couple of months later my cd stoped working
Dave
It has to be said
Does this mean IE is spy-ware? I don't mean to troll or flame but with the odd vunribilty in IE/WIN, it does seem posible except for the part that says:
In issuing regulations to carry out this paragraph, the Commission shall distinguish spyware programs from other commonly used computer programs used to share information among computers in an organized network of computers.
so if you have a program you installed that isn't commeny used eg. beta testing, it is posibly violating the law, what about User Agent? that is personal information? Also does this mean if the program is commen enough it is not aganst the law, ie. if everybody used kazza insted of kazza lite?
Me thinks somone opened a big can of man eating worms.
Does this mean that Duke Nukem forever will come out as 64-bits, that's probelby why there delaying it!
My uni does this, our mozilla directory is located on our network drives (though it means that you disable your disk cache) so our profiles follow us arround, some computers don't have mozilla installed but when you install it all your settings (inc. proxy) are used.
Dave
ps. my uni is uq and this is in the itee department (itee.uq.edu.au)
I don't know if it has yet been released in Australia but there has been alot of ads for it all ready. (at least a fortnight)
One wonders wheather this has anything to do with David Hicks, a australian citizen who is being tried in the us (in guntanimo bay) for receving terrorist training, our government, until a couble of days ago (like sunday or monday) refused to lift a finger, but now they are making a effort to get him back, to be tried in australia in a propper courtroom not an ammerican miltarty tribunal (it only started on the weekend IIRC. Maybe our governments acction is because we have a election comming up in october. but anyway maybe the australian government it trying to "Bribe" the US gov to get him back.
No, they only redistribut internaly and OS means that if i give you a binary i have to give you access to the source, so unless they sold it to other countries the enemy will not be able to download it