Unless you locked the whole table, Oracle is also pretty craptastic about COUNT(*), even if you have an index. Learned this the hard way doing it on a 20 million row table...
What makes it a lousy desktop? It's not like it won't run KDE and Gnome on X with all extensions and the same fonts. From the graphical environment alone, I defy you to tell me the difference. In fact, BSD as a desktop used to be a lot snappier than Linux, down to less pointer lag and all. More recent linuxes have caught up with the low-latency patches, but once they run into swap, they still bog -- because Linux's VM system is still bolted on and degrades very poorly.
FBSD 5.x I understand, has made some pretty painful tradeoffs for throughput and lost quite a bit of ground in responsiveness. If you want to try BSD out sometime, I actually recommend giving DragonFlyBSD a look -- it's based on FreeBSD 4.x, with some 5.x stuff backported, plus quite a bit of original work, and it reputed to be quite fast indeed.
> There's nothing unethical about putting that in your sig.
Aside from providing free advertising to spammers that is. And jebus, it's mod points, it's not mana from heaven. Stop fixating on them like they're some exercise of awesome power.
I'd be more likely to doubt the dating on the pictures. More likely this is from 1984 or 85.
Anyway, Bill looks a damn sight better in that pic than most of the lard-asses on slashdot, most of whom wouldn't have the guts to do something that goofy. Geeks are some of the most conformist people I know. Get in line and bleat the anti-bill hate, folks.
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> Have you tried doing bounds-checking in whatever scripting language your frontend application is written in, before passing it to MySQL?
You know, that's the same argument that Mac zealots were using about memory protection before it landed in OSX. "Applications should be smart enough to not access memory that isn't theirs".
The whole point of a database is to secure the data integrity, and not worry about some random application screwing it up. MySQL is nothing but a storage engine if it can't handle that.
COM is indeed spiffy -- in fact, OSKit uses it for its component model. If you fancy tinkering around with operating system internals, it's hard to do better than OSKit.
Folks, go find a copy of "Essential COM" by Don Box sometime. It's really quite a biblical text for anyone dealing with COM. Hell, download it from Kazaa if you feel like it, it's out of print anyway.
Taking ESR's advice on any programming subject is... unwise. He's purely a tinkerer, dilletante, and all around opinionated blowhard. No, he didn't even write fetchmail himself.
...and one idiot who thinks he can stave off all that by posting his insanely smart prediction about it....and one idiot making a snarky comment about that poster....and one idiot pointing it out...
Doing that sort of escaping gives you three entities instead of one. Big headache. It's not surprising that most people just punt and base64-encode anything that could possibly contain that ending string, such as an XML fragment that itself contains a CDATA. Kind of defeats the purpose, no? Just another twisted piece of the train wreck of XML. Great for config info when you have a decent editor, but just don't try to nest it.
It is expressed as an ASN.1 schema, yes. ASN.1 can express almost any binary format, but ASN.1 itself is the language to express the format, not the format itself.
And the ASN.1 specification itself is pretty freakin awful. It seems to have grown appendages and nobbies and warts to fit every last vendor's idea of a datatype, no matter how unorthogonal. Still not the disaster of XML Schema, but it's still a mess.
Some philosophers reason that evolution could simply be a tool of God, used to manipulate his creations.
That would be the Catholic Church. Pope Pius XII's encyclical in 1950 wasn't a ringing endorsement of evolution, but it specifically mentioned that it was not incompatible with Catholicism. Pope John Paul II reiterated the viewpoint, and emphasized the allegorical implications of the bible, as opposed to literal. The Presbyterian church has also done the same thing.
Mostly it's just the evangelicals who cling to creationism as dogma. It's not even a majority of Christian traditions.
I'll give you a topic: the fact that a modicum of critical thought when applied to creationism and its various guises completely demolishes them as workable theories. Discuss.
> Prisoners of war can be held until the war is over.
They're not prisoners of war. They're "illegal combatants". Which includes folks like drivers, who were never in combat.
Isn't it awful convenient to have a war of truly global scope? Where the battlefield is everywhere, the combatants are anyone, and the length is for all time? Who exactly are the combatants if every enemy is an illegal combatant?
Even if they're Bad People we're holding, we've utterly eradicated all global goodwill, degraded our past alliances, and probably diminished prospects of future cooperation in our happy little forever-war. Think pragmatically for a moment.
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One of the biggest problems in the spam architecture is "open relays"
Actually they're becoming a rather minor issue compared to open proxies, and those have taken a backseat to zombies.
That could be a legitimate activity, but it's so rare, and so typical of spammers "spoofing" fake "From:" headers (or just sending from the same user), that the SMTP server should at least notify the POSTMASTER who controls it.
Believe me, the postmaster isn't interested. It'd just add to the backscatter they constantly have to deal with from antivirus programs that insist that THEIR machines sent a virus, because it was on the From: line after all. Warning the postmaster at the outgoing site isn't helpful -- the spammer is the postmaster.
There already is something with the best of fedora and gentoo: Debian.
Want stable? Use the stable distro. Want bleeding edge? Use sid (use sid and switch to the test servers if you want your bleeding edge sharp and messy). Want to build from sources? apt-get source --compile
All it lacks is a pretty boot splash (Knoppix doesn't count, since it's basically not upgradeable with Debian core packages)
> Can't you just use a free google site search? Is it really worth 5k just to get a more customized search page? Or am I missing something (very likely)?
I installed MS's spyware detection tool through Windows Update... and I can't find it anywhere. Start menu, control panels. Maybe it's in the security center? Nope. How about administrative tools? Nope. Guess I'll have to search the knowledge base for it or something.
> There's no environmental ill effect to hydro-power at all, afaik.
Habitat destruction, upstream and down. You also get a lot of elemental mercury leached out of all the decaying vegetation after flooding the reservoir area, but the main issue is the land flooded by the reservoir and the reduced watershed downstream.
Personally I think most hydropower is a damn sight better than coal plants, but I would prefer more nuclear (the waste seems less an issue in comparison when you consider coal ash heaps are chock full of uranium)
> I believe that the point of the 2nd Amendment is to allow people to take arms against a government when it gets out of control
That would be the Declaration of Independence. Nowhere in the second amendment is this even implied. Do the words "well regulated" mean nothing to you? And no, I don't believe that means the national guard, but it still shows the intent was for the security of the state, not the people against the state.
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Unless you locked the whole table, Oracle is also pretty craptastic about COUNT(*), even if you have an index. Learned this the hard way doing it on a 20 million row table...
> I looked for a "donations" link on the Postgres page and they don't even have one.
It's there, under "support us", middle column at the bottom. http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate
> 1) BSD makes a lousy desktop.
What makes it a lousy desktop? It's not like it won't run KDE and Gnome on X with all extensions and the same fonts. From the graphical environment alone, I defy you to tell me the difference. In fact, BSD as a desktop used to be a lot snappier than Linux, down to less pointer lag and all. More recent linuxes have caught up with the low-latency patches, but once they run into swap, they still bog -- because Linux's VM system is still bolted on and degrades very poorly.
FBSD 5.x I understand, has made some pretty painful tradeoffs for throughput and lost quite a bit of ground in responsiveness. If you want to try BSD out sometime, I actually recommend giving DragonFlyBSD a look -- it's based on FreeBSD 4.x, with some 5.x stuff backported, plus quite a bit of original work, and it reputed to be quite fast indeed.
> There's nothing unethical about putting that in your sig.
Aside from providing free advertising to spammers that is. And jebus, it's mod points, it's not mana from heaven. Stop fixating on them like they're some exercise of awesome power.
I'd be more likely to doubt the dating on the pictures. More likely this is from 1984 or 85.
Anyway, Bill looks a damn sight better in that pic than most of the lard-asses on slashdot, most of whom wouldn't have the guts to do something that goofy. Geeks are some of the most conformist people I know. Get in line and bleat the anti-bill hate, folks.
> Have you tried doing bounds-checking in whatever scripting language your frontend application is written in, before passing it to MySQL?
You know, that's the same argument that Mac zealots were using about memory protection before it landed in OSX. "Applications should be smart enough to not access memory that isn't theirs".
The whole point of a database is to secure the data integrity, and not worry about some random application screwing it up. MySQL is nothing but a storage engine if it can't handle that.
> "Submission vettors" perhaps.
Given all the duplicates, they're not even managing to do that.
COM is indeed spiffy -- in fact, OSKit uses it for its component model. If you fancy tinkering around with operating system internals, it's hard to do better than OSKit.
... unwise. He's purely a tinkerer, dilletante, and all around opinionated blowhard. No, he didn't even write fetchmail himself.
Folks, go find a copy of "Essential COM" by Don Box sometime. It's really quite a biblical text for anyone dealing with COM. Hell, download it from Kazaa if you feel like it, it's out of print anyway.
Taking ESR's advice on any programming subject is
...and one idiot who thinks he can stave off all that by posting his insanely smart prediction about it. ...and one idiot making a snarky comment about that poster. ...and one idiot pointing it out ...
my god, IT'S IDIOTS ALL THE WAY DOWN!
There's a misconception that there isn't a rhinocerous in my living room. He's just very shy.
Golly, you're a nut job. Thanks for making it obvious.
Doing that sort of escaping gives you three entities instead of one. Big headache. It's not surprising that most people just punt and base64-encode anything that could possibly contain that ending string, such as an XML fragment that itself contains a CDATA. Kind of defeats the purpose, no? Just another twisted piece of the train wreck of XML. Great for config info when you have a decent editor, but just don't try to nest it.
It is expressed as an ASN.1 schema, yes. ASN.1 can express almost any binary format, but ASN.1 itself is the language to express the format, not the format itself.
And the ASN.1 specification itself is pretty freakin awful. It seems to have grown appendages and nobbies and warts to fit every last vendor's idea of a datatype, no matter how unorthogonal. Still not the disaster of XML Schema, but it's still a mess.
> They don't have any proof of bacteria turning into a cat, Or a reptile into a bird.
Yes they do. It just happened over a slightly longer time than your attention span.
> A dog has always been a dog
So you're saying my mom's shih-tzu has been that way since time immemorial?
Wow, I'm picturing packs of wild prehistoric shih-tzus roaming the land, the sounds of their fearsome snuffling can be heard for miles...
Some philosophers reason that evolution could simply be a tool of God, used to manipulate his creations.
That would be the Catholic Church. Pope Pius XII's encyclical in 1950 wasn't a ringing endorsement of evolution, but it specifically mentioned that it was not incompatible with Catholicism. Pope John Paul II reiterated the viewpoint, and emphasized the allegorical implications of the bible, as opposed to literal. The Presbyterian church has also done the same thing.
Mostly it's just the evangelicals who cling to creationism as dogma. It's not even a majority of Christian traditions.
I'll give you a topic: the fact that a modicum of critical thought when applied to creationism and its various guises completely demolishes them as workable theories. Discuss.
> Prisoners of war can be held until the war is over.
They're not prisoners of war. They're "illegal combatants". Which includes folks like drivers, who were never in combat.
Isn't it awful convenient to have a war of truly global scope? Where the battlefield is everywhere, the combatants are anyone, and the length is for all time? Who exactly are the combatants if every enemy is an illegal combatant?
Even if they're Bad People we're holding, we've utterly eradicated all global goodwill, degraded our past alliances, and probably diminished prospects of future cooperation in our happy little forever-war. Think pragmatically for a moment.
... the slashdot editors'!
One of the biggest problems in the spam architecture is "open relays"
Actually they're becoming a rather minor issue compared to open proxies, and those have taken a backseat to zombies.
That could be a legitimate activity, but it's so rare, and so typical of spammers "spoofing" fake "From:" headers (or just sending from the same user), that the SMTP server should at least notify the POSTMASTER who controls it.
Believe me, the postmaster isn't interested. It'd just add to the backscatter they constantly have to deal with from antivirus programs that insist that THEIR machines sent a virus, because it was on the From: line after all. Warning the postmaster at the outgoing site isn't helpful -- the spammer is the postmaster.
Or submit a picture of your vomit to discover similar celebrity vomit. Or celebrities that look like your vomit.
There already is something with the best of fedora and gentoo: Debian.
Want stable? Use the stable distro. Want bleeding edge? Use sid (use sid and switch to the test servers if you want your bleeding edge sharp and messy). Want to build from sources? apt-get source --compile
All it lacks is a pretty boot splash (Knoppix doesn't count, since it's basically not upgradeable with Debian core packages)
> Can't you just use a free google site search? Is it really worth 5k just to get a more customized search page? Or am I missing something (very likely)?
It's for intranets.
I installed MS's spyware detection tool through Windows Update ... and I can't find it anywhere. Start menu, control panels. Maybe it's in the security center? Nope. How about administrative tools? Nope. Guess I'll have to search the knowledge base for it or something.
So they expect average folks to use this how?
> There's no environmental ill effect to hydro-power at all, afaik.
Habitat destruction, upstream and down. You also get a lot of elemental mercury leached out of all the decaying vegetation after flooding the reservoir area, but the main issue is the land flooded by the reservoir and the reduced watershed downstream.
Personally I think most hydropower is a damn sight better than coal plants, but I would prefer more nuclear (the waste seems less an issue in comparison when you consider coal ash heaps are chock full of uranium)
> I believe that the point of the 2nd Amendment is to allow people to take arms against a government when it gets out of control
That would be the Declaration of Independence. Nowhere in the second amendment is this even implied. Do the words "well regulated" mean nothing to you? And no, I don't believe that means the national guard, but it still shows the intent was for the security of the state, not the people against the state.