Curious - are you referring to using raw devices for the tablespace? MySQL has had this since 3.23.41 for InnoDB (which is the storage engine that you're most likely to use if you're shooting for 'enterprise-level').
Definitely something you want to consider if you want to play in the big leagues, and a critical feature. Fortunately, it's one that MySQL has.
It's bad enough when the ads are flashing (I find that my eyes tend to gravitate towards movement, since my peripheral vision isn't good), but when I have to deal with something like Ars Technica's Vonage Ad Overload I just get sick and tired. Sorry Ars, but your site is not worth it.
And for those of you who don't happen to get these ads (I believe Ars ads are geographically targetted), for several months this one single ad was the only ad I ever saw on Ars, and there was always three of them on every page. That situation might have changed, but I started blocking ads specifically because of Ars. It's not a bad ad, in the sense that it doesn't flash or make noise or so on, but it is animated, and when I go to a site and I'm too distracted by the ads to read their content, I'm not sure what the site gets out of it.
Caesar, if you're reading this: GET NEW ADVERTISERS!
Yes, I'm stirring here. But none of the above is in the slightest untrue.
Except for the part about needing 5.0 client libraries to access a 5.0 server - you can use MySQL 3.23 client libraries to connect to MySQL 5.0 servers if you want. The only caveat is you have to enable old_passwords=1 in the config file, or set your user's password with OLD_PASSWORD() instead of PASSWORD() so you can use the older (less secure) authentication system.
Oh, and except for the part about MySQL not having released updated client libraries - it's just that no binary distributions compile against them, missing out on the more secure authentication mechanism. If you want PHP on Debian to be able to use the more secure protocol, apt-get install the latest 5.0 server and dev libraries, then apt-get -b source php4 and voila! No more error.
As for MySQL Administrator - I've been able to edit tables with primary keys without trouble - did one just now with version 1.1 as well. Perhaps you don't know how to update your applications just like you don't know how to update your client libs? Not sure what the problem is.
And just as an aside, the reason the hot topic on the mailing lists is the authentication protocol is because people are too dumb/lazy/ignorant to read the manual, which tells them everything they need to know (or maybe they just assume that MySQL, like most other OSS apps, has shitty documentation).
You based your whole rant around something which was blatantly untrue. How does that feel?
Locking is a major problem. In a database locks must be placed on data to maintain the consistency. You definitely don't want a database that locks the whole table without a really good reason, because as soon as table locks start happening, your performance goes to hell, as everything else will have to wait.
My personal favourite was the time one of our programmers (my boss) tried to add an index to a two-million-row MyISAM table which was being INSERT'ed to by a redirect script a few dozen times a second. As a result, any INSERT queries would block until the ALTER TABLE finished with the index. Well apparently, my predecessor at this company set Apache's MaxClients to 2000, so every request that was made spawned a new Apache process. Thus, with every hit on our website, another process was spawned, and within a minute our webserver had crashed.
Suffice to say, table locks are pretty much the worst thing ever. Unavoidable, perhaps, but terrible nonetheless. Remember kids: INSERT DELAYED is your friend!
Well there are some aspects of KDE which are not possible under OSX without significant tweaks or non-free software. For example, the browser, Konqueror will go everywhere, even below the "unseen line" of OSX and yes, you can tweak finder to go there to but not without non-free software and even then, you'r stuck with finder's interface.
I'm going to go ahead and assume here that you're referring to things like dotfiles,/bin,/usr, and so on? Is there non-free software that does this 'tweaking' for you? Because it's actually pretty easy.
*** SparTacus has joined #santcuary * SparTacus is now known as Betty_Guns *** wacko Jacko has joined #santcuary <wacko_Jacko> ok spartacus just came n here i know it. which one of you is that loser? <hunney> I am spartacus <ji_pper> no im spartacus <Betty_Guns> I am spartacus <mistr andersn> I'm spartacus <wacko_Jacko> ur all freaks thats what u r
I'm inclined to think that Opera's browser sales don't have as much to do with their profits as their licensing deals. Opera's browser comes default on many cellular phones and portable devices, and is available for others. On top of that, Opera has licensed their rendering engine out to Macromedia, for Dreamweaver MX, and also to Adobe for use in their CS2 suite (most notably GoLive CS2).
Licensing deals like that make more money than browser sales ever will.
It really comes down to a few basic points. When I first got to slashdot however many years ago, it was a geek haven. Now it's a wannabe haven, full of idiots who just want to spout their agenda, morons who make kneejerk reactions, and just generally people who don't appreciate knowledge and don't experience the thrill of discovery when someone posts something new.
On a topic like this, the discussion SHOULD be along the lines of 'This is really neat, Microsoft will probably screw it up, but it looks promising,' with the Microsoft bashing optional. Instead, we get jokes which are sort of funny, but are very obvious, posters that talk just to be heard, people who believe that everyone is interested in their take on a technology they don't understand, and so on.
What happened was all the people who really appreciate things like this stop posting, because why would you take a gem and put it in the middle of a pile of dung for other people to admire? It doesn't make sense, so people keep their contributions to themselves and give them to friends elsewhere instead. I don't post on slashdot very often, but usually, it's because I start writing something, then realize that most people are going to ignore it, won't understand, or will troll/flame me just to be assholes. Why bother?
The reason the signal/noise ratio is changing so rapidly is because as the noise gets higher, people take their signal elsewhere. All the karma, meta-moderation, threshold preferences, and so on won't help if no one that posts is actually contributing to the discussion.
I hit 50 karma in the space of about two months several years ago. Why? Because the topics were interesting, the discussions were insightful, and the people were largely interested in learning from each other. I didn't hit 50 karma because I'm some kind of genius, I did it because there were a lot of discussions worth contributing to, and little moderations add up. Nowadays, I pretty much never contribute, because there's no point.
Even if I do spend 20 minutes on an insightful post, add in links, research my answers, and so on, 20 people are going to read my post and reply to it and say 'You're so fucking stupid, Apple sucks, you're a fucking turtleneck-wearing latte-sipping communist. Why don't you get a real fucking computer you pansy?'
The fact of the matter is, people are leaving slashdot because of the uncompromising growth of idiots. Compounding this is the fact that the editors reject stories that are actually interesting (I submit technical stuff or interesting Ask Slashdot questions on a slow news day, and get rejected within minutes, and I know lots of other people that do as well), but then we get stories that are essentially advertisements, triple duplicates, editors that don't even RTFA and post wrong information in the story post, and so on.
I see the 'next story is almost ready, subscribers can beat the rush and see it early' text sometimes, and whenever I do, I think to myself 'I've probably seen it earlier today,' or 'great, if I pay money, I can get flamed and trolled before the unwashed masses.'
I would subscribe to slashdot if it weren't full of idiots. Five years ago, I would have paid. As it is, I basically farm the front page for links, and if I'm REALLY interested in a topic, I might read it, but I don't post nearly as much as I used to, because it's not worth it.
I just wish there was another option to get my daily links from. I guess if you aggregate enough RSS feeds, that might do it. Maybe I'll try that.
I'm curious as to what you mean when you say 'HTML 3.2... isn't CSS friendly'. the CSS1 recommendation is actually older than the HTML 3.2 recommendation by about a month. Sure, it's not as CSS-friendly as, say, HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.x, but I don't think 3.2 is explicitly unfriendly.
Unfortunately, I had to manually import the bookmarks.
You mean you had to go File -> Import and Export -> Import Internet Explorer Favorites ? Not so hard.
One thing I've hated about a certain unnamed browser on Windows is its insistence on importing IE favorites (putting a submenu with them). Despite repeated efforts to delete it, it kept on returning every time I restarted the program.
Perhaps popping up a 'migration wizard' or somesuch would be a good idea, but automatically doing it without asking (especially when such an easy method is available) is just silly.
While some people might argue that using poker bots is wrong because it is a violation of some user agreement with the casino consitancy requires us to give no more credance to the casino liscensce agreement than any other clickwrap. Even if the Casino has a EULA type agreement preventing bots how is this really any different than a hypothetical clause in the MS EULA requiring that you won't dual boot linux or use OSS in general? In both cases the company is demanding you not use your own computers in the way you choose so as to protect their profits. We should treat both cases exactly the same.
Where should I start? Ok, first of all, they're telling you what not to do with their computers, not yours. Secondly, it's not an EULA, it's a service agreement. They provide you a service, and in return, you abide by the rules under which they provide that service to you.
The position you seem to be taking is 'Why should I abide by rules that I've agreed to?' Well, because that's how the world works. If you agree to do something, you do it. If you sign a contract, you follow it. If you want to use someone's service, you abide by the conditions under which they provide it to you. Are you against the banning of spambots on Freenode as well? Do you think comment spam in weblogs is acceptable? I doubt it, but it's the same kind of situation.
Abide by the rules or run your own 'bots welcome' server, but don't go saying we shouldn't have to abide by the rules we agree to, because that just leads to anarchy.
Yeah, but all they need is a feminine-sounding UID and we'll mod them up to the clouds and beyond, and mod down any who disagree with them. This must logically be because it's the smart thing to do.
In a day and age when children can get to 10th grade despite having a 3rd-grade reading level, this essentially bars anyone from owning a laptop until their second year of college (if they make it to year 2), and revokes their privileges a year after they finish their Arts degree and get that job at Starbucks.
I agree with this. Don't buy your kids something that you think they should want. They'll get more out of working for something, they'll appreciate having it more, and they'll be more careful with it than if you just say hey, we bought you a laptop, so get better grades.
I notice that the parents who do things like that are often (not always) the types of parents who use this against their kids later too - 'we bought you this expensive laptop, and you're still failing English!'
Let your kids get it figured out themselves, and everyone will be better for it.
Actually, I'm with Pubnix. Great service, I highly recommend. We have DSL through them at home and at work, and I have the owner's cell number in case problems happen and there's no one at the office. Ugly site, but good service.
You're getting shafted. We pay $20 CDN for land line (my roommate's), and $40 CDN for 3meg down/1 meg up, 5 static IPs with reverse DNS, and no download/upload cap (Montreal, QC)
You forgot a few, such as Google good, SCO bad, IBM good, US government bad, steve jobs good, london bombings bad, nvidia usually good, but not always, ati mostly indifferent but generally well-recieved, space exploration good, space weapons bad, anime good, see-through-clothes X-Ray machines bad, unless it's geeks running it and Natalie Portman going through it.
I used to attend a technical high school (it was a partnership between the BC Ministry of Education and the University College of the Fraser Valley). Students were divided up into programs, like Computer Information Systems, Electronics, Electrical, Business Management (clerical), and so on. It was very much an intellectual school, all for high-school students who wanted to start their university education early.
Of course, in the entire history of the school, the soccer team had never won a game. Oh well. We can't all be track stars I guess.
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Curious - are you referring to using raw devices for the tablespace? MySQL has had this since 3.23.41 for InnoDB (which is the storage engine that you're most likely to use if you're shooting for 'enterprise-level').
Definitely something you want to consider if you want to play in the big leagues, and a critical feature. Fortunately, it's one that MySQL has.
It's bad enough when the ads are flashing (I find that my eyes tend to gravitate towards movement, since my peripheral vision isn't good), but when I have to deal with something like Ars Technica's Vonage Ad Overload I just get sick and tired. Sorry Ars, but your site is not worth it.
And for those of you who don't happen to get these ads (I believe Ars ads are geographically targetted), for several months this one single ad was the only ad I ever saw on Ars, and there was always three of them on every page. That situation might have changed, but I started blocking ads specifically because of Ars. It's not a bad ad, in the sense that it doesn't flash or make noise or so on, but it is animated, and when I go to a site and I'm too distracted by the ads to read their content, I'm not sure what the site gets out of it.
Caesar, if you're reading this: GET NEW ADVERTISERS!
Yes, I'm stirring here. But none of the above is in the slightest untrue.
Except for the part about needing 5.0 client libraries to access a 5.0 server - you can use MySQL 3.23 client libraries to connect to MySQL 5.0 servers if you want. The only caveat is you have to enable old_passwords=1 in the config file, or set your user's password with OLD_PASSWORD() instead of PASSWORD() so you can use the older (less secure) authentication system.
Oh, and except for the part about MySQL not having released updated client libraries - it's just that no binary distributions compile against them, missing out on the more secure authentication mechanism. If you want PHP on Debian to be able to use the more secure protocol, apt-get install the latest 5.0 server and dev libraries, then apt-get -b source php4 and voila! No more error.
As for MySQL Administrator - I've been able to edit tables with primary keys without trouble - did one just now with version 1.1 as well. Perhaps you don't know how to update your applications just like you don't know how to update your client libs? Not sure what the problem is.
And just as an aside, the reason the hot topic on the mailing lists is the authentication protocol is because people are too dumb/lazy/ignorant to read the manual, which tells them everything they need to know (or maybe they just assume that MySQL, like most other OSS apps, has shitty documentation).
You based your whole rant around something which was blatantly untrue. How does that feel?
Locking is a major problem. In a database locks must be placed on data to maintain the consistency. You definitely don't want a database that locks the whole table without a really good reason, because as soon as table locks start happening, your performance goes to hell, as everything else will have to wait.
My personal favourite was the time one of our programmers (my boss) tried to add an index to a two-million-row MyISAM table which was being INSERT'ed to by a redirect script a few dozen times a second. As a result, any INSERT queries would block until the ALTER TABLE finished with the index. Well apparently, my predecessor at this company set Apache's MaxClients to 2000, so every request that was made spawned a new Apache process. Thus, with every hit on our website, another process was spawned, and within a minute our webserver had crashed.
Suffice to say, table locks are pretty much the worst thing ever. Unavoidable, perhaps, but terrible nonetheless. Remember kids: INSERT DELAYED is your friend!
I'm going to go ahead and assume here that you're referring to things like dotfiles, /bin, /usr, and so on? Is there non-free software that does this 'tweaking' for you? Because it's actually pretty easy.
Then just restart Finder and off you go.
Do people really charge for this? Or do you mean non-free as in you can't get the source for 'defaults' (I think you can)?
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<wacko_Jacko> ok spartacus just came n here i know it. which one of you is that loser?
<hunney> I am spartacus
<ji_pper> no im spartacus
<Betty_Guns> I am spartacus
<mistr andersn> I'm spartacus
<wacko_Jacko> ur all freaks thats what u r
http://www.bash.org/?328464
I'm inclined to think that Opera's browser sales don't have as much to do with their profits as their licensing deals. Opera's browser comes default on many cellular phones and portable devices, and is available for others. On top of that, Opera has licensed their rendering engine out to Macromedia, for Dreamweaver MX, and also to Adobe for use in their CS2 suite (most notably GoLive CS2).
Licensing deals like that make more money than browser sales ever will.
It really comes down to a few basic points. When I first got to slashdot however many years ago, it was a geek haven. Now it's a wannabe haven, full of idiots who just want to spout their agenda, morons who make kneejerk reactions, and just generally people who don't appreciate knowledge and don't experience the thrill of discovery when someone posts something new.
On a topic like this, the discussion SHOULD be along the lines of 'This is really neat, Microsoft will probably screw it up, but it looks promising,' with the Microsoft bashing optional. Instead, we get jokes which are sort of funny, but are very obvious, posters that talk just to be heard, people who believe that everyone is interested in their take on a technology they don't understand, and so on.
What happened was all the people who really appreciate things like this stop posting, because why would you take a gem and put it in the middle of a pile of dung for other people to admire? It doesn't make sense, so people keep their contributions to themselves and give them to friends elsewhere instead. I don't post on slashdot very often, but usually, it's because I start writing something, then realize that most people are going to ignore it, won't understand, or will troll/flame me just to be assholes. Why bother?
The reason the signal/noise ratio is changing so rapidly is because as the noise gets higher, people take their signal elsewhere. All the karma, meta-moderation, threshold preferences, and so on won't help if no one that posts is actually contributing to the discussion.
I hit 50 karma in the space of about two months several years ago. Why? Because the topics were interesting, the discussions were insightful, and the people were largely interested in learning from each other. I didn't hit 50 karma because I'm some kind of genius, I did it because there were a lot of discussions worth contributing to, and little moderations add up. Nowadays, I pretty much never contribute, because there's no point.
Even if I do spend 20 minutes on an insightful post, add in links, research my answers, and so on, 20 people are going to read my post and reply to it and say 'You're so fucking stupid, Apple sucks, you're a fucking turtleneck-wearing latte-sipping communist. Why don't you get a real fucking computer you pansy?'
The fact of the matter is, people are leaving slashdot because of the uncompromising growth of idiots. Compounding this is the fact that the editors reject stories that are actually interesting (I submit technical stuff or interesting Ask Slashdot questions on a slow news day, and get rejected within minutes, and I know lots of other people that do as well), but then we get stories that are essentially advertisements, triple duplicates, editors that don't even RTFA and post wrong information in the story post, and so on.
I see the 'next story is almost ready, subscribers can beat the rush and see it early' text sometimes, and whenever I do, I think to myself 'I've probably seen it earlier today,' or 'great, if I pay money, I can get flamed and trolled before the unwashed masses.'
I would subscribe to slashdot if it weren't full of idiots. Five years ago, I would have paid. As it is, I basically farm the front page for links, and if I'm REALLY interested in a topic, I might read it, but I don't post nearly as much as I used to, because it's not worth it.
I just wish there was another option to get my daily links from. I guess if you aggregate enough RSS feeds, that might do it. Maybe I'll try that.
I'm curious as to what you mean when you say 'HTML 3.2 ... isn't CSS friendly'. the CSS1 recommendation is actually older than the HTML 3.2 recommendation by about a month. Sure, it's not as CSS-friendly as, say, HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.x, but I don't think 3.2 is explicitly unfriendly.
Here's a screen capture of Katrina hitting the game world.
(originally stolen from http://data.4chan.org/b/src/1125712295576.jpg but mirrored for bandwidth).
Unfortunately, I had to manually import the bookmarks.
You mean you had to go File -> Import and Export -> Import Internet Explorer Favorites ? Not so hard.
One thing I've hated about a certain unnamed browser on Windows is its insistence on importing IE favorites (putting a submenu with them). Despite repeated efforts to delete it, it kept on returning every time I restarted the program.
Perhaps popping up a 'migration wizard' or somesuch would be a good idea, but automatically doing it without asking (especially when such an easy method is available) is just silly.
Where should I start? Ok, first of all, they're telling you what not to do with their computers, not yours. Secondly, it's not an EULA, it's a service agreement. They provide you a service, and in return, you abide by the rules under which they provide that service to you.
The position you seem to be taking is 'Why should I abide by rules that I've agreed to?' Well, because that's how the world works. If you agree to do something, you do it. If you sign a contract, you follow it. If you want to use someone's service, you abide by the conditions under which they provide it to you. Are you against the banning of spambots on Freenode as well? Do you think comment spam in weblogs is acceptable? I doubt it, but it's the same kind of situation.
Abide by the rules or run your own 'bots welcome' server, but don't go saying we shouldn't have to abide by the rules we agree to, because that just leads to anarchy.
Yeah, but all they need is a feminine-sounding UID and we'll mod them up to the clouds and beyond, and mod down any who disagree with them. This must logically be because it's the smart thing to do.
Perhaps this is meant to accomplish a tighter integration of the hardware with the software.
In a day and age when children can get to 10th grade despite having a 3rd-grade reading level, this essentially bars anyone from owning a laptop until their second year of college (if they make it to year 2), and revokes their privileges a year after they finish their Arts degree and get that job at Starbucks.
I agree with this. Don't buy your kids something that you think they should want. They'll get more out of working for something, they'll appreciate having it more, and they'll be more careful with it than if you just say hey, we bought you a laptop, so get better grades.
I notice that the parents who do things like that are often (not always) the types of parents who use this against their kids later too - 'we bought you this expensive laptop, and you're still failing English!'
Let your kids get it figured out themselves, and everyone will be better for it.
Actually, I'm with Pubnix. Great service, I highly recommend. We have DSL through them at home and at work, and I have the owner's cell number in case problems happen and there's no one at the office. Ugly site, but good service.
You're getting shafted. We pay $20 CDN for land line (my roommate's), and $40 CDN for 3meg down/1 meg up, 5 static IPs with reverse DNS, and no download/upload cap (Montreal, QC)
"imperiling"?
Edna: Embiggens? I never heard that word before I moved to Springfield
Ms.Hoover: I don't know why. It's a perfectly cromulent word.
You're right. Here's number two.
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http://sites.darien.ca/temp/images/safari-acid2-a
Of course, it doesn't matter, because I could just edit the URL bar and then take a screenshot, but whatever, here you are.
Here's a link to a screenshot of Safari rendering the ACID2 test, by the way, just in case anyone's curious.
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http://sites.darien.ca/temp/images/safari-acid2.p
You forgot a few, such as Google good, SCO bad, IBM good, US government bad, steve jobs good, london bombings bad, nvidia usually good, but not always, ati mostly indifferent but generally well-recieved, space exploration good, space weapons bad, anime good, see-through-clothes X-Ray machines bad, unless it's geeks running it and Natalie Portman going through it.
Those are the basics, anyway.
I used to attend a technical high school (it was a partnership between the BC Ministry of Education and the University College of the Fraser Valley). Students were divided up into programs, like Computer Information Systems, Electronics, Electrical, Business Management (clerical), and so on. It was very much an intellectual school, all for high-school students who wanted to start their university education early.
Of course, in the entire history of the school, the soccer team had never won a game. Oh well. We can't all be track stars I guess.
Fire Bad!
You forgot a few:
- Republican
- Lawyer
- SCO executive