Damn, what a "democracy" Britain is. Clueless, greedy, inept politicians fscking the sheep. Projected costs of implementation according to this Register story are at least £20 million </RANT>
The Foundation for Information Policy Research has the full text of a report on how easy it would be to circumvent RIP, thereby rendering it an expensive and ill considered waste of taxpayers money.
Has anyone here tried this method? I'm finding some improvement in my myopia, but I'd like to know if anyone has returned to ~20/20.
One word of caution, a number of badly trained people are practicing as Bates teachers. These are mostly the ones who believe Bates method is an 'alternative' therapy. Your best bet is to read a number of books on the Bates method and, if you still feel that you need someone to supervise you, assess the practitioner on the basis of your newfound knowledge. Otherwise, the books and a little willpower are all you need.
Some books I would recommend: The Bates Method for Better Eyesight Without Glasses | William Horatio Bates | Henry Holt (Paper) | 080500241 Relearning to See | Thomas R. Quackenbush | North Atlantic Books | hardback:1556432054 paperback:1556433417 Check out the uppermost review of Quackenbush's book.
SQL Server dominates [every] gross performance benchmark. Please post a link to these objective benchmarks. I've used SQL Server at Scoot when I was doing some DBA work there and really did not rate it at all highly.
Yes, Oracle do charge a lot of money for their product but, they are the market leader. M$'s pricing strategy is laudable in that they charge the same price for everyone and this price is clearly visible on their Website. I only wish other vendors would follow their example.
Oracle has reached the top, not through being the best, but through marketing hype. I chose to become an Oracle, rather than any other DBMS, DBA due to having experience of it at university. It's smart to promote your products at an educational institution.
Sybase is far better technically than Oracle IMHO. Heard of SQL Server? Spew. Sybase sold it to M$.
[Sybase] has a smaller footprint memory and disk wise What's wrong with Oracle's physical and logical disk configuration? The optimal solution is 22*2 dedicated drives -> parallel read write, speedy SELECTs, good locking architecture etc...
The word according to Mr. Greenspun: Here are the factors that I think are important in choosing an RDBMS to sit behind a Web site: 1. cost/complexity to administer 2. lock management system 3. full-text indexing option 4. maximum length of VARCHAR data type 5. support
What's the price per processor for a Sybase DBMS per year? What's the cost of a junior (12 to 18 months experience) Sybase DBA? Oracle8i is around $125,000 per processor. ~96% of the e-50 use Oracle according to their adverts. Thus, Oracle is the market leader and can name their price. Starting Oracle DBAs can earn between $60,000 to $80,000. Unfortunately the salary is much lower in good old blighty. AFAIK, Sybase is not a player when it comes to point 3. Oracle falls down at point 4. What's the max VARCHAR on Sybase? Do me out of this job by using the relatively cheap ($2000 for 25 users), minimal administration DBMS Solid.
From the User Tracking chapter of Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing: We trust our desktop computers with our e-mail. We trust them with our credit card numbers. We trust them to monitor our phone calls. We trust our desktop computers with financial and tax data. We can program our desktop computers to release or withhold information without relying on publishers' privacy notices. If publishers would stop trying to be clever behind our backs, most of us would be happy to give them personal information of our choosing. Publishers could spend a few weeks sitting down to come up with a standard for the exchange of personalization information. Netscape would add a Profile Upload feature to Navigator 6.0. Then a magazine wouldn't have to go out and join an ad banner network to find out what we like; it could just provide a button on its site and we'd push the button to upload our profiles. This would be useful for more mundane transactions as well. For example, instead of each publisher spending $150,000 developing a shopping basket system and order form, publishers could just put an "upload purchase authorization and shipping address" button on their site. We'd type our credit card numbers and mailing addresses just once into our browsers' Options menus rather than 1,000 times into various publishers' forms.
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I've never seen anybody running anything of importance off a MySQL db. How about Slashdot? Not that important eh?
I wholeheartedly agree with Ben Adida's article. The gist of the article is that a RDBMS must fulfil the ACID test to qualify as such. MySQL just does not meet the criteria. It has its uses but not as a relational database management system. In the responses section at the end of the article, Ben says "MySQL overstates what it can do, that it's a fine file-system, just not an RDBMS."
Philip Greenspun has complained about the speed of Oracle in some SQL transactions as compared to that of a script to grind over the data. This goes to show that there is a large overhead in using a RDBMS.
Learn the lesson, use the tool most suited for the job, but do not go around saying that a thing is something that it is patently not.
You may be able to infer from the time-stamp that the immediate parent comment by myself was posted when the parent comment by Mr. Greenspun was at 1.
Then, after some moderators saw my message and moderated up Mr. Greenspun's comment, a clueless moderator comes along and moderates down my message asking where in Hell's name, the moderators are. Yet another example of incompetent moderation. My comment had relevance at the time and may have become redundant after it was acted upon. It was not redundant at the time of posting.
/. needs competent moderators with open minds. There are some moderators out there who are doing a really good job, but there are abuses too. Perhaps there should be some way to scrutineer in a scientific manner with properly accredited moderators. Are there any means of redress? It would be interesting to see whether meta-moderation would have done anything without this comment. I actually doubt whether this comment will change anything. Wait and see...
Oh well. Probably serves me right for my attachment to karma. See sid=moderation for more info.
This Register article points to the RNID considering a number of projects and having already tested some WAP browsers. "It is even prepared to build a product itself if commercial kit is not up to scratch."
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In addition check Web Nerd Bookshelf and look at the section entitled User Interface Design. Another site brought to you by the redoubtable Phillip Greenspun.
Replying to my own comment, hmm. I/They've got it... Schizophrenia
Point taken. However I'm not planning to change the software running on my machine, even if I do upgrade Linux, Oracle, AOLServer, I'll downgrade if the hardware is not sufficient.
In a few years no doubt, I'll be running a photonic computer with fibre links and additional blahblah. But, I'll still be running this machine or be sharing it with some Developing country. Donate your unneeded machines to these people. Better still go there and do some teaching/sysadmin/coding as well.
Shouldn't we get more UI designers to read and use the subtle wisdom of Edward Tufte, the chap who really understands how graphic design affects thinking, decision-making, and emotions. He could really teach these UI designers a thing or two about intelligent and tasteful design.
There are three of his books which I would recommend without reservation:
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (1983)
Envisioning Information (1990)
Visual Explanations : Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative (1997)
I would think that it's fairly self evident that, when using a Peltier, you should not let the fans exhaust into the case. Using a good server/workstation case with lots of space for ventilation, such as the Addtronics WT8500 or the SUPER MICRO SC-750A, is advisable.
Peltiers do generate a lot of heat but, for example, the Swiftech MC2001 uses 2 fans for two thermoelectric coolers (the Peltier junctions), moving 66 cfm of air. Do you think Peltier manufacturers are so grossly incompetent as to heat up the insides of the case? Freezing, that's a different matter. They recommend that you use a silicon compound to prevents moisture penetrating the circuits and then freezing solid..
Anandtech, amongst others, has written a review of Swiftech's MC2000 and MC1000 Peltiers.
I am not, nor have been connected with Swiftech in any way.
There's a chap named Zak Oppong who has gone one better. In his Coca-Cola PC he uses real Coke to cool his system. I think you'll agree that this PC is quite visually arresting! Check out this link for more weird and wonderful machines he has built.
I think this chap has made some good contributions to making computers more appealing to children, e.g. a PC built into a toy racing car and the Coke bottle PC, and recycling old parts to make some funky designs.
By the time your processor dies (you probably have discarded it long before it dies), you will probably be able to buy a 6000 MHz processor for $200 No, I won't be discarding processors willy nilly. I plan to keep the processor running for 10 years plus. Frankly, I'd rather reserve my money for increased I/O performance e.g DDRAM and multiple SCSI HDs than for a faster processor. A 1GHz processor wouldn't be as useful to me as 4* 600MHz processors, besides being much more expensive. Even better would be processors based on the ARM, Alpha, G4 and generally RISC CPUs, but for cost.
Not to mention, peltier devices draw another 65 watts of energy and a computer system that is loaded to every expansion slot and bay with devices will most likely not have enough power for the Peltier. Swiftech recommend that you use a separate PS for the Peltier. However you have to remember to turn off the Peltier when you switch off the PC or you end up with ice in your machine. Perhaps you could offer a timeshare in fridges;-).
I agree wholeheartedly on your main point regarding overclocking. Diehard gamers and those with too much money (why don't you donate some to a worthwhile charity?) like to increase their framerates. It is quite virtually a matter of life and death to them. THey tend to forget about I/O!. See my previous comment for why I'm considering a Peltier.
I'm trying to create a server on a PC budget. I don't want to change processors within 5 years.
With the 22 million odd transistors on the K7 comes an increase in heat. The situation will improve with the introduction of copper (more conductive) interconnects replacing the currently used aluminium ones.
I don't regard the MC2001 as a waste of money as I can modify it for use with future processors.
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Damn, what a "democracy" Britain is. Clueless, greedy, inept politicians fscking the sheep.
Projected costs of implementation according to this Register story are at least £20 million
</RANT>
Obstruct the doors
Cause delay
And be dangerous
Regret for the past,
Is a waste of spirit
One word of caution, a number of badly trained people are practicing as Bates teachers. These are mostly the ones who believe Bates method is an 'alternative' therapy. Your best bet is to read a number of books on the Bates method and, if you still feel that you need someone to supervise you, assess the practitioner on the basis of your newfound knowledge. Otherwise, the books and a little willpower are all you need.
Some books I would recommend:
The Bates Method for Better Eyesight Without Glasses | William Horatio Bates | Henry Holt (Paper) | 080500241
Relearning to See | Thomas R. Quackenbush | North Atlantic Books | hardback:1556432054 paperback:1556433417
Check out the uppermost review of Quackenbush's book.
Regret for the past is a waste of spirit
Please post a link to these objective benchmarks. I've used SQL Server at Scoot when I was doing some DBA work there and really did not rate it at all highly.
Yes, Oracle do charge a lot of money for their product but, they are the market leader. M$'s pricing strategy is laudable in that they charge the same price for everyone and this price is clearly visible on their Website. I only wish other vendors would follow their example.
Regret for the past is a waste of spirit
I chose to become an Oracle, rather than any other DBMS, DBA due to having experience of it at university. It's smart to promote your products at an educational institution.
Sybase is far better technically than Oracle IMHO.
Heard of SQL Server? Spew. Sybase sold it to M$.
[Sybase] has a smaller footprint memory and disk wise
What's wrong with Oracle's physical and logical disk configuration? The optimal solution is 22*2 dedicated drives -> parallel read write, speedy SELECTs, good locking architecture etc...
The word according to Mr. Greenspun:
Here are the factors that I think are important in choosing an RDBMS to sit behind a Web site:
1. cost/complexity to administer
2. lock management system
3. full-text indexing option
4. maximum length of VARCHAR data type
5. support
What's the price per processor for a Sybase DBMS per year? What's the cost of a junior (12 to 18 months experience) Sybase DBA? Oracle8i is around $125,000 per processor. ~96% of the e-50 use Oracle according to their adverts. Thus, Oracle is the market leader and can name their price. Starting Oracle DBAs can earn between $60,000 to $80,000. Unfortunately the salary is much lower in good old blighty.
AFAIK, Sybase is not a player when it comes to point 3. Oracle falls down at point 4. What's the max VARCHAR on Sybase? Do me out of this job by using the relatively cheap ($2000 for 25 users), minimal administration DBMS Solid.
Regret for the past is a waste of spirit
Here it is.
Regret for the past is a waste of spirit
Yes I know its a biz suit...
Regret for the past is a waste of spirit.
Incorrect. Why would you need to use such an insecure language like Java/JavaScript?
Can you point me to this automatic upload JavaScript method?
Regret for the past is a waste of spirit.
We trust our desktop computers with our e-mail. We trust them with our credit card numbers. We trust them to monitor our phone calls. We trust our desktop computers with financial and tax data. We can program our desktop computers to release or withhold information without relying on publishers' privacy notices. If publishers would stop trying to be clever behind our backs, most of us would be happy to give them personal information of our choosing. Publishers could spend a few weeks sitting down to come up with a standard for the exchange of personalization information. Netscape would add a Profile Upload feature to Navigator 6.0. Then a magazine wouldn't have to go out and join an ad banner network to find out what we like; it could just provide a button on its site and we'd push the button to upload our profiles. This would be useful for more mundane transactions as well. For example, instead of each publisher spending $150,000 developing a shopping basket system and order form, publishers could just put an "upload purchase authorization and shipping address" button on their site. We'd type our credit card numbers and mailing addresses just once into our browsers' Options menus rather than 1,000 times into various publishers' forms.
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How about Slashdot? Not that important eh?
Slashdot: Sad Sloth | Dash Lots
Philip Greenspun has complained about the speed of Oracle in some SQL transactions as compared to that of a script to grind over the data. This goes to show that there is a large overhead in using a RDBMS.
Learn the lesson, use the tool most suited for the job, but do not go around saying that a thing is something that it is patently not.
I found SQL for Web Nerds an useful resource in learning SQL.
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Redundant WTF?
You may be able to infer from the time-stamp that the immediate parent comment by myself was posted when the parent comment by Mr. Greenspun was at 1.
Then, after some moderators saw my message and moderated up Mr. Greenspun's comment, a clueless moderator comes along and moderates down my message asking where in Hell's name, the moderators are. Yet another example of incompetent moderation. My comment had relevance at the time and may have become redundant after it was acted upon. It was not redundant at the time of posting.
Oh well. Probably serves me right for my attachment to karma. See sid=moderation for more info.
Clueless Moderator: A Closured Molester
*/RANT*
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Slashdot: Sad Sloth | Dash Lots
"It is even prepared to build a product itself if commercial kit is not up to scratch."
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Replying to my own comment, hmm. I/They've got it... Schizophrenia
Slashdot:
sad sloth or
dash lots
In a few years no doubt, I'll be running a photonic computer with fibre links and additional blahblah. But, I'll still be running this machine or be sharing it with some Developing country. Donate your unneeded machines to these people. Better still go there and do some teaching/sysadmin/coding as well.
The site tries to set some illegal cookies upon clicking one of his links and crashing my luvverly browser -> Opera 4.0 Beta 2
There are three of his books which I would recommend without reservation:
Peltiers do generate a lot of heat but, for example, the Swiftech MC2001 uses 2 fans for two thermoelectric coolers (the Peltier junctions), moving 66 cfm of air. Do you think Peltier manufacturers are so grossly incompetent as to heat up the insides of the case? Freezing, that's a different matter. They recommend that you use a silicon compound to prevents moisture penetrating the circuits and then freezing solid..
Anandtech, amongst others, has written a review of Swiftech's MC2000 and MC1000 Peltiers.
I am not, nor have been connected with Swiftech in any way.
I think this chap has made some good contributions to making computers more appealing to children, e.g. a PC built into a toy racing car and the Coke bottle PC, and recycling old parts to make some funky designs.
By the time your processor dies (you probably have discarded it long before it dies), you will probably be able to buy a 6000 MHz processor for $200
No, I won't be discarding processors willy nilly. I plan to keep the processor running for 10 years plus. Frankly, I'd rather reserve my money for increased I/O performance e.g DDRAM and multiple SCSI HDs than for a faster processor. A 1GHz processor wouldn't be as useful to me as 4* 600MHz processors, besides being much more expensive. Even better would be processors based on the ARM, Alpha, G4 and generally RISC CPUs, but for cost.
Swiftech recommend that you use a separate PS for the Peltier. However you have to remember to turn off the Peltier when you switch off the PC or you end up with ice in your machine. Perhaps you could offer a timeshare in fridges
I agree wholeheartedly on your main point regarding overclocking. Diehard gamers and those with too much money (why don't you donate some to a worthwhile charity?) like to increase their framerates. It is quite virtually a matter of life and death to them. THey tend to forget about I/O!. See my previous comment for why I'm considering a Peltier.
With the 22 million odd transistors on the K7 comes an increase in heat. The situation will improve with the introduction of copper (more conductive) interconnects replacing the currently used aluminium ones.
I don't regard the MC2001 as a waste of money as I can modify it for use with future processors.