I have to buy a new notebook _now_ so that is the problem. so the choice is limited to: intel centrino duo, turion and macbook pro. my decision is to buy a turion-based notebook now (not very expensive, msi s270 costs ~1200$) and possibly buy another one when dual-core turion appears and linux succesfully runs on it.
I know macosx is claimed a heaven for programmers. linux is not since the diversity of libs. my needs however are very specific and limited (eclipse + java + php + apache + postgresql + some-other-software). I need 64bit. I need a notebook with weight 2kg. gentoo on amd64 is blazingly fast. that is all;-)
after reading the article (and many others) now I am sure I am sticking with linux. after a few days of hasitation (I have tried macosx in vmware-player) and reading these hardware reviews I finally ordered a turion-based notebook.
sorry apple - maybe for my mom, not for me. not this time.
but how the hell can anyone put a inside
and claim it is xhtml strict??? it is just beond my imagination... my students know better how to build good pages...;-)
in my case the reason is simpe: we could not survive slashdotting;-) (yet) but first half-public beta-sites will be launched within next few months.
such a move requires quite a massive infrastructure and I do not believe in going head-to-head with google. in fact wiki-based solution is a very different approach and there is a room for all of us - at least I can not see any conflict here. anyway - please do not treat my posts as advertising - I am just sharing my thoughts as a software developer.
but look at gmail: it did not change the way many people read mail. none of my friends changed her/his primary email to google. neither did gtalk. let us be honest: although google services are good, they are not revolutionary. and they do not have to - they are ALL TO INCREASE ADS INCOME in the end.
I have tried to create a few pages and the only conclusion is: the interface and features are very very poor compared to any wiki engine you can find at several wiki farms (mostly these wikimedia-based). google allows you to customize look&feel a bit and that is in +. but for me - usability is below average - I am a great wiki fan.
googlepages is beta (surprised?) and I hope interface will evolve. imho this is not the way I would like to create my pages.
we are currently working on a similar system based on wiki engine. and I can tell you - number of options is just not comparable. but I wonder if we will have eg. feed reader/integrator, flickr integration, blog integration etc. with googlepages.
I suppose eventually you will be allowed to put adsense on googlepages.;-)
summarising: googlapages seem to be good for simple, personal pages. but I can not image creating more than dozen of pages with it.
Anyway, the point someone was trying to make is that MySQL isn't ready for high-traffic enterprise sites, which I hope we can all agree is just silly.
For a mostly read-only and simple queries requests MySQL rocks. That is obvious. But when it comes to high trafic with a lot of inserts, updates, joins - PostgreSQL can be much better.
After all - it all depends on the sort of application you have. There is no winner, we can agree to this.
I agree. But I am not the author of this comparison. The true powet of PostgreSQL comes out in the real-world aplications, not in simple benchmarks with one client;-)
there is a short (decent) comparison at this url.
From my point of view (web application developer, Ozone framework author and the author of a few rich-content websites I can say for sure: I am more than happy to discover PostgreSQL. Why? More Oracle-like, transactions, nested transactions, views, sql-schema... I doubt MySQL 5.0 will come even close to the standard of PosgtreSQL.
Some can say MySQL is fast. No, it is not. When you run more than 100 users at once PostgreSQL is faster. MySQL has stupid table-locking mechanism that decreases performance significantly under high load.
I would say: PostgreSQL seems to be slower, is not perfectly optimized, but much better goals in its design were used. And one of the goals ic SQL conformance. MySQL is FAR from the SQL standard.
If you want to migrate from MySQL to e.g. Oracle - it is a pain. But PG is much closer to it.
IMHO PostgreSQL is an industry-standard database and we use it for almost every project now. We have used MySQL some time ago and believe me - the difference is huuuuuge. PG is a real database. MySQL seems like a table-managing-application;-)
Now how can I tell my children that hiking, climbing, biking gives much more fun than electronic gadgets??? Do you really think such gadgets are good for children?
Somehow I am getting more and more sceptical about these pseudo-educational gadgets.
well please take into account that excessive technologisation distracts students! with a simple textbook - everything is nice and clear, with a computer - not so sure.
I still can not imagine e.g. math classes with computers - although numerical methods are somehow important - the true understanding comes from paper and pencil.
I have attended one of the best schools in my city at the time. We had only old craps - not realy computers - x286. There were no computers used in classes apart from "computer sciences". When I see young people massively distracted by "technologization" I think this is NOT the right way.
Of course - students MUST know how to use a computer. And do it well. But please - does every lecture now has to be computer-aided now?
oh, yes. this is odd. I forgot that open-source developers drink water, eat earth and live in primitive cottages in the center of jungle/desert/iceland. have no other needs than internet access that is free and wear simple self-made clothes.
and yes, this is strange. I always thought open-source software does need any money - it was always here since I remember.
of course. about 5500 people that were rejected;-) it was a sort of lottery. imho if you had an independent project not following the ideas posted earlier by the mentoring organizations - your chances were low - judgin on some discussions after acceptance/rejection of proposals.
I do not really see a point in pseudo-improving the visuals in Longhorn. Being almost addicted to Linux where the system core and graphicsal environments are totaly separated - new widgets or whistles in Windows do not impress me at all. In Linux I can freely choose between Gnome, KDE and several others and a lot of custom themes for each. So an extra toolbar in Longhorn or an extra bar with "Administrator" written on it - what kind of joke is this?
IMHO it is a VERY unreasonable to bind visuals to the system core. If gui goes down - the whole system does. Integration gives you (naively thinking) positive values, but what you can see in Linux or MacOsX is the counterexample.
Ok - so Microsoft is promoting the new os with a few whistles added, perhaps drm integrated and will require you to buy a 3GHz processor to preserve the same quality and conveniance you had on a 166MHz running Windows 98.
IMHO _IF_ MacOsX would be available for x86 along with all the drivers and software Windows has now - Windows would go down.
I am also affraid the guys from Microsoft are permanently making some ideological/design mistake when developing next Windows edition. Look at Apple: they decided to go Unix and... MacOsX is one of the most stable and secure systems available. Microsoft keeps upgrading DOS 6.22 and patching security holes. The result is just... funny and sad. Funny when you just look at their attempt to fool people and force them to buy their shitty products and sad because... they succeed. And people WILL but Longhorn.
But my doubt is: what would happen IF Polish minister Marcinski had not vetoed the patent bill in December? Was it really so close? I mean - was the majority in the EU parlament for the software patents or against them in December 2004? Why only one veto?
1. Hurd enables the port for Linux kernel modules (it was the case in the Mach series as I believe but the port was quite old 2.0.xx modules or so)
2. Port Gentoo to Hurd
I really hope Hurd developers can create better kernel than the Linux one. With all the woooo for Linux it is still not a perfect solution - buffer overflows etc. Such things should not happen in a good designed kernel.
If you add kernel hotplug and scalability (native clusters) there would be NO competition for Hurd. I hope;-)
1. a snickers 2. a jam of pure honey 3. an apple 4. a carrot
We found out that snickers is the best food because: 1. it comes in a nice wrapping 2. has many calories and can give you an energetic boost 3. its taste is supreme to others
Some people say you need vitamines, you should not spoil your teeth etc. But for an end-user what matters is the ease of use! And the snickers is the ultimate winner here.
Although an apple and a carrot keep quite close they have a long way to go.
I do not think Poland can resist very long... It is GREAT they do, but since their position is not established well (yet) and they still count on A LOT of EU financial support - they just will not stand (alone).
How is it possible that only ONE COUNTRY in the whole EU can stand against???
Unfortunately the product called "Kielbasa" or "Polish Kielbasa" (or whatever) that you can buy in the US does not even resemble the sausages you can buy in eastern Europe. This is a cheap marketing trick to give the customer the feeling sth is more "exotic".
I was in US for some time and was tricked for the first time as well. Sensing the trap I bought only one pack. Almost everything I had to throw away to the trash.
In most cases there is NO CONNECTION (even the manufacturer) with Poland.
First make sure the product is IMPORTED FROM POLAND;-)
Anyway - you can support Poland talking good about us;-) I am really happy with Poland's attitude to Software Patents and all the reaction it caused in the Open Source community.
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I wonder WHEN will they be able to properly esimate the traffic and prepare for it? Was it not the same with Google Analytics?
Google one of the few companies I can think about that release things that hardly work and easily hit top stories...
michal
I have to buy a new notebook _now_ so that is the problem. so the choice is limited to: intel centrino duo, turion and macbook pro. my decision is to buy a turion-based notebook now (not very expensive, msi s270 costs ~1200$) and possibly buy another one when dual-core turion appears and linux succesfully runs on it.
;-)
I know macosx is claimed a heaven for programmers. linux is not since the diversity of libs. my needs however are very specific and limited (eclipse + java + php + apache + postgresql + some-other-software). I need 64bit. I need a notebook with weight 2kg. gentoo on amd64 is blazingly fast. that is all
best regards - michal
after reading the article (and many others) now I am sure I am sticking with linux. after a few days of hasitation (I have tried macosx in vmware-player) and reading these hardware reviews I finally ordered a turion-based notebook.
sorry apple - maybe for my mom, not for me. not this time.
but how the hell can anyone put a inside and claim it is xhtml strict??? it is just beond my imagination... my students know better how to build good pages... ;-)
michal
lol, try to validate the page ;-)
e w.mclellan.googlepages.com%2Fhome
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdr
Failed validation, 16 errors. And these are serious errors that can tell you sth about googlepages engine.
michal
in my case the reason is simpe: we could not survive slashdotting ;-) (yet) but first half-public beta-sites will be launched within next few months.
such a move requires quite a massive infrastructure and I do not believe in going head-to-head with google. in fact wiki-based solution is a very different approach and there is a room for all of us - at least I can not see any conflict here. anyway - please do not treat my posts as advertising - I am just sharing my thoughts as a software developer.
but look at gmail: it did not change the way many people read mail. none of my friends changed her/his primary email to google. neither did gtalk. let us be honest: although google services are good, they are not revolutionary. and they do not have to - they are ALL TO INCREASE ADS INCOME in the end.
well - we will see.
michal
I have tried to create a few pages and the only conclusion is: the interface and features are very very poor compared to any wiki engine you can find at several wiki farms (mostly these wikimedia-based). google allows you to customize look&feel a bit and that is in +. but for me - usability is below average - I am a great wiki fan.
;-)
;-)
googlepages is beta (surprised?) and I hope interface will evolve. imho this is not the way I would like to create my pages.
we are currently working on a similar system based on wiki engine. and I can tell you - number of options is just not comparable. but I wonder if we will have eg. feed reader/integrator, flickr integration, blog integration etc. with googlepages.
I suppose eventually you will be allowed to put adsense on googlepages.
summarising: googlapages seem to be good for simple, personal pages. but I can not image creating more than dozen of pages with it.
michal
For a mostly read-only and simple queries requests MySQL rocks. That is obvious. But when it comes to high trafic with a lot of inserts, updates, joins - PostgreSQL can be much better.
After all - it all depends on the sort of application you have. There is no winner, we can agree to this.
michal
I agree. But I am not the author of this comparison. The true powet of PostgreSQL comes out in the real-world aplications, not in simple benchmarks with one client ;-)
michal
there is a short (decent) comparison at this url. ;-)
From my point of view (web application developer, Ozone framework author and the author of a few rich-content websites I can say for sure: I am more than happy to discover PostgreSQL. Why? More Oracle-like, transactions, nested transactions, views, sql-schema... I doubt MySQL 5.0 will come even close to the standard of PosgtreSQL.
Some can say MySQL is fast. No, it is not. When you run more than 100 users at once PostgreSQL is faster. MySQL has stupid table-locking mechanism that decreases performance significantly under high load.
I would say: PostgreSQL seems to be slower, is not perfectly optimized, but much better goals in its design were used. And one of the goals ic SQL conformance. MySQL is FAR from the SQL standard.
If you want to migrate from MySQL to e.g. Oracle - it is a pain. But PG is much closer to it.
IMHO PostgreSQL is an industry-standard database and we use it for almost every project now. We have used MySQL some time ago and believe me - the difference is huuuuuge. PG is a real database. MySQL seems like a table-managing-application
best regards - michal
oh GREAT! now they also want to know my MOBILE NUMBER?
michal
great!
Now how can I tell my children that hiking, climbing, biking gives much more fun than electronic gadgets??? Do you really think such gadgets are good for children?
Somehow I am getting more and more sceptical about these pseudo-educational gadgets.
michal
well please take into account that excessive technologisation distracts students! with a simple textbook - everything is nice and clear, with a computer - not so sure.
I still can not imagine e.g. math classes with computers - although numerical methods are somehow important - the true understanding comes from paper and pencil.
I have attended one of the best schools in my city at the time. We had only old craps - not realy computers - x286. There were no computers used in classes apart from "computer sciences". When I see young people massively distracted by "technologization" I think this is NOT the right way.
Of course - students MUST know how to use a computer. And do it well. But please - does every lecture now has to be computer-aided now?
best regards - michal (totaly distracted)
oh, yes. this is odd. I forgot that open-source developers drink water, eat earth and live in primitive cottages in the center of jungle/desert/iceland. have no other needs than internet access that is free and wear simple self-made clothes.
and yes, this is strange. I always thought open-source software does need any money - it was always here since I remember.
michal
of course. about 5500 people that were rejected ;-)
;-)
it was a sort of lottery. imho if you had an independent project not following the ideas posted earlier by the mentoring organizations - your chances were low - judgin on some discussions after acceptance/rejection of proposals.
mine got rejected
michal
... until Social Security runs out of numbers ;-)
m.
Is their calendar broken? April 1st? One of the best jokes I have heard this year!
Or should I also ask and threaten people to remove screenshots of my beta releases?
regards - michal
I do not really see a point in pseudo-improving the visuals in Longhorn. Being almost addicted to Linux where the system core and graphicsal environments are totaly separated - new widgets or whistles in Windows do not impress me at all. In Linux I can freely choose between Gnome, KDE and several others and a lot of custom themes for each. So an extra toolbar in Longhorn or an extra bar with "Administrator" written on it - what kind of joke is this?
IMHO it is a VERY unreasonable to bind visuals to the system core. If gui goes down - the whole system does. Integration gives you (naively thinking) positive values, but what you can see in Linux or MacOsX is the counterexample.
Ok - so Microsoft is promoting the new os with a few whistles added, perhaps drm integrated and will require you to buy a 3GHz processor to preserve the same quality and conveniance you had on a 166MHz running Windows 98.
IMHO _IF_ MacOsX would be available for x86 along with all the drivers and software Windows has now - Windows would go down.
I am also affraid the guys from Microsoft are permanently making some ideological/design mistake when developing next Windows edition. Look at Apple: they decided to go Unix and... MacOsX is one of the most stable and secure systems available. Microsoft keeps upgrading DOS 6.22 and patching security holes. The result is just... funny and sad. Funny when you just look at their attempt to fool people and force them to buy their shitty products and sad because... they succeed. And people WILL but Longhorn.
michal
I am glad that the patents are being moved away.
But my doubt is: what would happen IF Polish minister Marcinski had not vetoed the patent bill in December? Was it really so close? I mean - was the majority in the EU parlament for the software patents or against them in December 2004? Why only one veto?
best regards - michal
It seems as the interface is supreme to other online maps. With some enhancements - it will be no longer necessary to buy any "boxed" computer maps.
I just hope they will cover more than just the USA. But knowing the Google's desire for domination... Just good luck!
michal
The way I see it is:
;-)
1. Hurd enables the port for Linux kernel modules (it was the case in the Mach series as I believe but the port was quite old 2.0.xx modules or so)
2. Port Gentoo to Hurd
I really hope Hurd developers can create better kernel than the Linux one. With all the woooo for Linux it is still not a perfect solution - buffer overflows etc. Such things should not happen in a good designed kernel.
If you add kernel hotplug and scalability (native clusters) there would be NO competition for Hurd. I hope
best regards - Michal
We have tested the following pieces of food:
1. a snickers
2. a jam of pure honey
3. an apple
4. a carrot
We found out that snickers is the best food because:
1. it comes in a nice wrapping
2. has many calories and can give you an energetic boost
3. its taste is supreme to others
Some people say you need vitamines, you should not spoil your teeth etc. But for an end-user what matters is the ease of use! And the snickers is the ultimate winner here.
Although an apple and a carrot keep quite close they have a long way to go.
best regards
michal
How is it possible that only ONE COUNTRY in the whole EU can stand against???
I was in US for some time and was tricked for the first time as well. Sensing the trap I bought only one pack. Almost everything I had to throw away to the trash.
In most cases there is NO CONNECTION (even the manufacturer) with Poland.
First make sure the product is IMPORTED FROM POLAND ;-)
Anyway - you can support Poland talking good about us ;-) I am really happy with Poland's attitude to Software Patents and all the reaction it caused in the Open Source community.