What happens if the brakes on your car fail and as a result, two other cars are wrecked in the accident? Undoubtedly the property damage and medical bills would be far higher than your state limits. Do you have deep enough pockets to reimburse the other drivers for the difference between your policy limits and the damage amounts?
Are you prepared to file bankruptcy when the other guy's insurance company sues you for what they have to cover, over and above your policy limits (assuming he claims on his uninsured motorist policy)?
Having state minimum coverage is nothing to brag about. The difference in price between state minimum coverage and a more responsible amount - say half a million dollars - is negligible if you have a clean record. It's irresponsible of you to make others on the road accept the financial risk of you causing an accident, just to save a few bucks. You shouldn't be on the road if the only amount you're willing to insure yourself for, is state minimum.
+1 on the GZone, especially if you enjoy water or snow sports. Nothing quite like taking a phone call when you're swimming in the lake, or skiing from the back of a boat!
Plus, if it gets dirty, just throw it in the dishwasher. That's an excellent bonus.
Yes. And if you don't mind putting up with an hour or so commute - something that those of you on the coasts might do anyway - you can have a large lakefront home in a resort community for less than $300k.
With three choices for high speed internet, it's possible to telecommute full or part time, if your employer is understanding.
If you don't have a need for lakefront property, you can get 3,000 sf of living space, still with spectacular views, for less than a grand a month. I am reminded of vacations in Cape Cod every time I walk the dogs.
Excellent differential, getuid(). If the bank is suing for #2, then I have a question: how can any system based on Microsoft Windows - or any other Microsoft product - be certified as DSS/PCI compliant, ever? There is too much under Windows that Microsoft still controls. The auditor would have to recertify with every Microsoft update. This would cause further problems as updates were delayed due to auditing, or because the merchant could not afford to audit.
You'd have to have a hell of a lot of built-up voltage to jump through the plastic casing, through the air gap to the non-grounded metal on the PC board, and then from there across the air gap to the USB grounding shield.
USB grounding is rugged as hell. At one point, the outlet behind my computer desk did not have a plate. One day when I was re-arranging cables, the metal shield of a USB plug brushed one of the screws for the 120v hot side in the outlet. The 120v had a clear path thru the USB cable, into the metal chassis, and out of the metal chassis via the power supply's ground pin. There's a nice big divot in that USB cable where the arcing occurred, but the cable and PC are still in use today.
Mark, have you taken a look at xTuple ERP? This offers everything except Payroll, and has pretty advanced inventory features, even in the free (CPAL) version. There is the free version, then two commercial versions (each offering more features). Best of all, clients are available for Linux, Mac, and Windows, and they look exactly alike. It's written in C++/Qt/Postgres.
xTuple even offers screen builder and report builder so that you can make custom data entry screens.
Good luck finding Payroll built-in to anything these days. Even QuickBooks and Microsoft SBA don't have built-in Payroll - they sub out the actual Payroll functions to ADP or another provider. I don't know of any company I've dealt with that does Payroll in-house.
"I would like to use MySQL instead of Postgres - it's easier for me to install, maintain, and just plain understand. I don't like how PG does things a lot of the time and find it needlessly complex."
Can you elaborate a bit on this? What, specifically, is harder in Postgres than in MySQL? In what environment are you trying to install?
Under Windows, installing PG is a no-brainer with the installer. Under RHEL or CentOS, you just need to install a handful of RPM's and go.
Maintenance isn't that difficult, either, if you're using PGAdmin III, which is bundled as part of the Windows installer.
Stry_Cat,
I'm not sure how you're using Xen, but unless you're runing QEmu specifically, you shouldn't see QEmu in your process table on any of your domains. Xen-based machines or kernels are not user processes like QEmu machines are; in fact, Xen and QEmu are completely unrelated.
On my CentOS-5 based home machine, the dom0 running a couple of domU children provides the following evidence that Xen is running:
SMB's who are interested in OSS but want something that doesn't require as much hand holding should check out Quasar Accounting. http://www.linuxcanada.com/ Quasar is GPL, has Windows and Linux graphical clients, and is as easy to use as Quickbooks. It also has most of the features of QuickBooks Enterprise and can handle very sophisticated inventory controls. It's being used to keep the books on a chain of 70+ convenience stores, as well as others.
http://www.linuxcanda.com/
BigMan,
If you're coming from SQL Server, you'd be better off downloading and using Postgres 8.2.4 for windows, from here. PG is BSD licensed, which means you can bundle it with your commercial.NET-based apps for free.
The management interface for PG is on-par with SQL Server Studio; I use both on a daily basis. It's also "20 minutes to set up and start populating data". As an added plus, Postgres has all of the "standard" syntax and referential data integrity turned on out of the box.
You use MySQL if: a) you're developing a LAMP app for an inexpensive webhost that only allows MySQL databases, or b) all of your developers cut their teeth on MySQL and therefore productivity will drop if you ask them to use standard compliant syntax, or c) You're using an app (like SugarCRM or WordPress), the developers of which insisted on using funky MySQL-only features (instead of standard portable syntax) and therefore it's too much work to port to a standard syntax.
In all other cases, you use Postgres or some other commercial database. Postgres scales much better than InnoDB on any combination of a) larger numbers of read-write transactions, b) larger numbers of connections, c) more processors, d) larger datasets (including and beyond 400-500GB).
I've had cases where mail coming from SourceForge never reached me; their servers never even attempted to connect to my e-mail server (i.e. nothing in the logs to indicate this). I was running my own DNS at the time, at a colocation center, and never had problems sending or receiving e-mail before with any other domains.
I live in a somewhat rural area next to a small (15k population) city. Our development of approximately 3,600 homes is served by two providers: a Rural Electric Cooperative, who has buried lines, and a national (multinational?) company, who has overhead lines. The national company also serves the nearby city.
When someone sneezes in the city, the power is literally out of commission for a week or more for some customers.
However, those of us lucky enough to be on the Cooperative's grid will still have power after a cataclysmic meteorite impact at Ground Zero. In the 5 years I've been there, we've only had an extended (6 hour) power outage once - and that outage was due to an overloaded circuit feeding one of the national company's grids, NOT due to one of the many ice storms, tornado's, or frequent high-wind storms we have. There have been a couple 10 minute outages, but I've been able to personally resolve those by plugging the fridge into the generator - the grid always comes back on within 5 seconds of doing this.
Completely false. This statement is a common urban legend, and nothing more.
Completely true. While the A/C taps power from the engine, rolling down windows taps more power from the engine to overcome drag.
I have a 2001 Chrysler Sebring sedan with the 2.7 V6 and one of those nifty trip computers. I use synthetic oil. At 75mph, I get around 31MPG. With the A/C on, that drops to 29 MPG. With the A/C off and one window down, that drops to 26 MPG. (This is with the cruise control on - so no lead foot to take into account.)
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C64L,
What happens if the brakes on your car fail and as a result, two other cars are wrecked in the accident? Undoubtedly the property damage and medical bills would be far higher than your state limits. Do you have deep enough pockets to reimburse the other drivers for the difference between your policy limits and the damage amounts?
Are you prepared to file bankruptcy when the other guy's insurance company sues you for what they have to cover, over and above your policy limits (assuming he claims on his uninsured motorist policy)?
Having state minimum coverage is nothing to brag about. The difference in price between state minimum coverage and a more responsible amount - say half a million dollars - is negligible if you have a clean record. It's irresponsible of you to make others on the road accept the financial risk of you causing an accident, just to save a few bucks. You shouldn't be on the road if the only amount you're willing to insure yourself for, is state minimum.
Eclipse offers realtime collaborative editing via XMPP and the Eclipse Communication Framework:
http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/06/eclipse-ganymede-ecf
Set up a Jabber server and away you go.
I have not tried this, so I can't speak to its quality.
+1 on the GZone, especially if you enjoy water or snow sports. Nothing quite like taking a phone call when you're swimming in the lake, or skiing from the back of a boat! Plus, if it gets dirty, just throw it in the dishwasher. That's an excellent bonus.
Yes. And if you don't mind putting up with an hour or so commute - something that those of you on the coasts might do anyway - you can have a large lakefront home in a resort community for less than $300k. With three choices for high speed internet, it's possible to telecommute full or part time, if your employer is understanding. If you don't have a need for lakefront property, you can get 3,000 sf of living space, still with spectacular views, for less than a grand a month. I am reminded of vacations in Cape Cod every time I walk the dogs.
Excellent differential, getuid(). If the bank is suing for #2, then I have a question: how can any system based on Microsoft Windows - or any other Microsoft product - be certified as DSS/PCI compliant, ever? There is too much under Windows that Microsoft still controls. The auditor would have to recertify with every Microsoft update. This would cause further problems as updates were delayed due to auditing, or because the merchant could not afford to audit.
You'd have to have a hell of a lot of built-up voltage to jump through the plastic casing, through the air gap to the non-grounded metal on the PC board, and then from there across the air gap to the USB grounding shield. USB grounding is rugged as hell. At one point, the outlet behind my computer desk did not have a plate. One day when I was re-arranging cables, the metal shield of a USB plug brushed one of the screws for the 120v hot side in the outlet. The 120v had a clear path thru the USB cable, into the metal chassis, and out of the metal chassis via the power supply's ground pin. There's a nice big divot in that USB cable where the arcing occurred, but the cable and PC are still in use today.
Mark, have you taken a look at xTuple ERP? This offers everything except Payroll, and has pretty advanced inventory features, even in the free (CPAL) version. There is the free version, then two commercial versions (each offering more features). Best of all, clients are available for Linux, Mac, and Windows, and they look exactly alike. It's written in C++/Qt/Postgres.
http://www.xtuple.org/
xTuple even offers screen builder and report builder so that you can make custom data entry screens.
Good luck finding Payroll built-in to anything these days. Even QuickBooks and Microsoft SBA don't have built-in Payroll - they sub out the actual Payroll functions to ADP or another provider. I don't know of any company I've dealt with that does Payroll in-house.
"I would like to use MySQL instead of Postgres - it's easier for me to install, maintain, and just plain understand. I don't like how PG does things a lot of the time and find it needlessly complex."
Can you elaborate a bit on this? What, specifically, is harder in Postgres than in MySQL? In what environment are you trying to install?
Under Windows, installing PG is a no-brainer with the installer. Under RHEL or CentOS, you just need to install a handful of RPM's and go.
Maintenance isn't that difficult, either, if you're using PGAdmin III, which is bundled as part of the Windows installer.
SMB's who are interested in OSS but want something that doesn't require as much hand holding should check out Quasar Accounting. http://www.linuxcanada.com/ Quasar is GPL, has Windows and Linux graphical clients, and is as easy to use as Quickbooks. It also has most of the features of QuickBooks Enterprise and can handle very sophisticated inventory controls. It's being used to keep the books on a chain of 70+ convenience stores, as well as others. http://www.linuxcanda.com/
Yes, there are a few options.
Slony-I is a BSD licensed Master-Slave system; its successor, Slony-II, is still in development.
Various outfits like EnterpriseDB and Greenplum offer commercial Postgres derivatives with multi-master replication and clustering.
There are also open-source, less-popular options like PGPool and PGCluster.
Cheers,
-J
BigMan, If you're coming from SQL Server, you'd be better off downloading and using Postgres 8.2.4 for windows, from here. PG is BSD licensed, which means you can bundle it with your commercial .NET-based apps for free.
The management interface for PG is on-par with SQL Server Studio; I use both on a daily basis. It's also "20 minutes to set up and start populating data". As an added plus, Postgres has all of the "standard" syntax and referential data integrity turned on out of the box.
You use MySQL if: a) you're developing a LAMP app for an inexpensive webhost that only allows MySQL databases, or b) all of your developers cut their teeth on MySQL and therefore productivity will drop if you ask them to use standard compliant syntax, or c) You're using an app (like SugarCRM or WordPress), the developers of which insisted on using funky MySQL-only features (instead of standard portable syntax) and therefore it's too much work to port to a standard syntax.
In all other cases, you use Postgres or some other commercial database. Postgres scales much better than InnoDB on any combination of a) larger numbers of read-write transactions, b) larger numbers of connections, c) more processors, d) larger datasets (including and beyond 400-500GB).
Cheers, -J
I've had cases where mail coming from SourceForge never reached me; their servers never even attempted to connect to my e-mail server (i.e. nothing in the logs to indicate this). I was running my own DNS at the time, at a colocation center, and never had problems sending or receiving e-mail before with any other domains.
I live in a somewhat rural area next to a small (15k population) city. Our development of approximately 3,600 homes is served by two providers: a Rural Electric Cooperative, who has buried lines, and a national (multinational?) company, who has overhead lines. The national company also serves the nearby city.
When someone sneezes in the city, the power is literally out of commission for a week or more for some customers.
However, those of us lucky enough to be on the Cooperative's grid will still have power after a cataclysmic meteorite impact at Ground Zero. In the 5 years I've been there, we've only had an extended (6 hour) power outage once - and that outage was due to an overloaded circuit feeding one of the national company's grids, NOT due to one of the many ice storms, tornado's, or frequent high-wind storms we have. There have been a couple 10 minute outages, but I've been able to personally resolve those by plugging the fridge into the generator - the grid always comes back on within 5 seconds of doing this.
Completely false. This statement is a common urban legend, and nothing more.
Completely true. While the A/C taps power from the engine, rolling down windows taps more power from the engine to overcome drag.
I have a 2001 Chrysler Sebring sedan with the 2.7 V6 and one of those nifty trip computers. I use synthetic oil. At 75mph, I get around 31MPG. With the A/C on, that drops to 29 MPG. With the A/C off and one window down, that drops to 26 MPG. (This is with the cruise control on - so no lead foot to take into account.)
Care to back up your assertion with some facts?