Like the anon coward that some fanboi modded troll, I'll second "half the internet has reported that bug."
I've reported it, and I got told it is my system. Er., right. One Vista Ultimate system, one Windows 7 Pro system, and SuSE linux on several systems (on different unconnected networks) all exhibit the same symptoms, and the problem didn't go away after blowing away the profile directories, and even clearing the prefetch files on the Windows boxes.
The problem starts happening sporadically, but once it does occur, it occurs more and more often. What happens is the app pins one core at 100% utilization, the application becomes very unresponsive, and if you install a Firefox Restart extension, anywhere from one to five minutes will pass between hitting "ctrl-alt-r" and the application actually terminating and restarting.
Firebug is not the issue, nor is Google Toolbar, nor is Web Developer Toolbar. It's not lack of RAM, nor a corrupt profile, nor an extension (it will eventually occur on a completely empty, new profile and once it starts it occurs often). The problem is Firefox. It's a real bug, and unfortunately I don't think any end users are going to run a debugger to capture a trace. I certainly am not going to - I have my own work to do. If Firefox had any sort of logging mechanism for tracking this stuff, I'd gladly capture a few logs and submit them, but it doesn't so I won't.
But to mod people down because you disagree with them, or call them liars because they report this very common problem with Firefox is just plain stupid.
Economy of scale. I mean, really, what can you buy with DisplayPort interfaces?
Let's see:
Apple Macintoshes High end workstation (NVIDIA Quadro and ATI/AMD) graphics cards Huge high end monitors Dell Precision Mobile Workstations (notebooks with desktop chipsets shoved into them!)
. . . and not a lot else.
Oh and as far as the alleged "unlicensed" passive DisplayPort to HDMI dongles and cables? They work just fine with both Macs and Dell Precision notebooks.
Sure, you have to run separate cables for audio, the cable is bulkier, thumbscrews rather than a clip for securing it in place -- what? Oh, you did? Oh, he asked about redeeming features. Sorry, aside from the scads of DVI and VGA monitors already deployed and the easy compatibility, I can't think of any.
And, in both cases, compatibility issues are easily addressed via DisplayPort to DVI* and DisplayPort to VGA* cables.
*may require an active adapter unless the DisplayPort has those features integrated
What I want to know is this: are they making a xen kernel and associated packages available? That's what I really need. Before you say "build your own" I'll point out that if I had the time for that, I would, but I don't want to have to rebuild the kernel and dependent modules every time a patch is released.
"nobody" meaning you and two other people, plus iDevice users.
Everyone else who uses youtube, yahoo, gaming sites, and so on installs flash. I had flash on my iPhone (Frash - a port of android's flash), until an ios update broke it.
Do you have aspergers' syndrome or some other form of mild autism? "Rapidly" is not an absolute term; it is a relative term. In this case, "Rapidly" would mean "far more quickly than if presentation and logic are mixed into a spaghetti dish"
And, you don't have to listen if you have the right to be there; you can ask "am I being detained, or am I free to go?" and if they are not detaining you and it is public property accessible to all, you have a right to ignore him and stay there.
. . . at which point the officer will continue to behave unlawfully and tase you.
To make this simple purge all the bullshit like wall posts, messages, notes and other user content.
So, what you are saying is to purge everything which makes Facebook worthwhile to the masses? What else could possibly give Google+ an opportunity to instantly overtake Facebook?:)
So hurray for MySQL. They saved 45-minutes during their installation on day one and now they'll spend a year or two plus millions of dollars to move away from their extremely dumb and uneducated decision. That's got to be one of the most expensive 45-minutes on earth - and yet its one of the single biggest decisions which MySQL users defend on a daily basis.
IMHO it was a bargain - MySQL has worked up until now, it is still working, so as far as I am concerned that's a big success story for such a low-end free/free database - and it was a choice they made based on what they already had skills in and it enabled them to earn billions, so it was a very smart, inexpensive way for them to get started. Now for Facebook, spending a few million to get on to big iron is cheap money, whereas back in the day spending a week or two to really learn the ins and outs of Postgres or spending thousands on Oracle could have prevented them from surviving in the first place.
And, to add to that, Facebook is insane if they didn't implement what is commonly called an "access layer" for abstraction, so that the system can be rapidly ported from one RDBMS to another. However, even if they did implement that in their architecture, some issues come up: is it implemented throughout the project, or did some developers bypass it for performance, and is it intermingled with presentation code? Can they re-implement the access layer without performance suffering? Does the new RDBMS provide similar performance under their circumstances (a faster DBMS isn't always faster if it's not highly optimized for a corner case that another RDBMS by pure chance happens to excel at).
So no, it's not a matter of export/import and forget about it, but if they were smart about it from the very beginning (doubtful) it could be painful - and even if they did have the foresight to make it modular, it doesn't mean that Oracle would actually perform better for them.
But, I think few outside of Facebook would know the answer to those questions, and I think given the size Facebook has grown to, I'm sure that they have the staff on hand to keep it under control. I'm far more interested in learning what Google uses on their back end for a database that rarely if ever breaks under the immense load Google faces. THAT is more impressive than Facebook, IMHO because as far as I am concerned Facebook doesn't really matter since it's not essential; it's just a toy, but Google is essential.
SQL is a standard, but no, "SQL" isn't standard. There are syntax differences between databases, and if you get into stored procedures (or equivalent) and triggers (or equivalent), or rely on referential integrity (which is implemented on some RDBMS systems, but not others, and doesn't always work the same), it won't be a matter of dumping the database from one RDBMS and then importing it to another RDBMS. Things are going to break.
I'd hate to have to deal with a(-) Facebook dump file(s); I'm sure everything isn't crammed into a single table, or even a single database, but I'd imagine must be a horrible, fragile, scary mess even if the architecture is sound.
That's the beauty of MySQL, Postgres, etc. come into play - not only are they easily scalable, but they are open source so if you are a large organization, you can cook your own fork and address the shortcomings, unlike smaller organizations which lack the resources to even consider the "it's open source, fix it yourself" mantra. In fact, it'd be neat if for once Facebook does something less than evil and contributes significant enhancements to MySQL.
..oh btw righties don't wear your watches on the right it is OUR THING =p
I started wearing my watch on my right wrist about 15 years ago - when I bought my first real sportscar (I almost always choose manual transmissions). I figured it made more sense since that hand is always used for shifting, etc.while my left hand almost never leaves the steering wheel.:)
If you publish an innovation from which you do not intend to profit, and which you would not mind others replication or even would like others to replicate, simply do not file a patent for it. Should anyone ever attempt to do so, your work will qualify as prior art.
your work will^H^H^H^Hshould qualify as prior art
I fixed that for you. In this day and age where a patent clerk's "research" consists of searching for his rubber stamp to approve the app and grant the patent (usually on stuff a simple google query would show a googleplex worth of results for), you have to wait to duke it out in court and go broke defending yourself against a patent which should never have made it TO the application process, let alone be granted patent protection.
Oh yeah, and I live in Massachusetts, where we're known as Massholes for our driving.
Ah yes, Massachusetts. This is the state^H^H^H^H^Hcommonwealth where:
* Yield means "Gun it and cut off other people at all costs"
* Red means "You don't have to stop for another three seconds. Nail the thottle, damn it!"
* Four way stop works in LIFO fashion, meaning "You're the last person to stop? You're the first person to go," whereas in every other state they're FIFO
* The left lane is where you drive 5mph under while reading a book, texting, and applying makeup/styling hair/shaving/eating a seven course dinner/watch a DVD/text, or anything else other than paying attention to traffic around you
* The breakdown lane is the passing lane, where you drive 15+mph over the limit and yield to NO ONE
* 35 mph zone means tailgate the person in front of you, or pass them
* 45 mph zone means drive 30-35mph
* turn indicators are NOT to be used at any time (unless you're a police officer, in which case you signal AFTER you turn)
* Traffic cops never enforce the speed limit except on open highways when "speeding" causes zero safety issues - oh, and don't enforce actual safety laws. You NEVER see traffic cops enforcing speed limits in school zones. In fact if you try to drive the limit in a school zone, there will always be someone following 1' behind you
* Senseless anti-texting laws are passed, while STILL not enforcing improper lane changes, failure to yield, failure to stop at traffic signals/stop signs, traveling in the passing lane, passing on the right, tailgating, traveling in the breakdown lane, or other safety-related laws - which if enforced would result in fewer accidents and would negate any need for hard-to-enforce anti-texting laws (which by the way will result in false accusation against GPS users)
The driving here sucks. It is so refreshing when I travel out west or down south - people are MUCH more polite pretty much everywhere south and west of NJ and NY - anywhere north and east of those borders the driving gets worse and worse, with the very worst drivers, in NJ, CT, NYC (NY is fine after you get outside of the greater NYC region) and of course, Massachusetts. RI is marginally less bad for driving than the surrounding states.
Oh yeah, and I live in Massachusetts, where we're known as Massholes for our driving.
Ah yes, Massachusetts. This is the state^H^H^H^H^Hcommonwealth where:
* Yield means "Gun it and cut off other people at all costs"
* Red means "You don't have to stop for another three seconds. Nail the thottle, damn it!"
* Four way stop works in LIFO fashion, meaning "You're the last person to stop? You're the first person to go," whereas in every other state they're FIFO
* The left lane is where you drive 5mph under while reading a book, texting, and applying makeup/styling hair/shaving/eating a seven course dinner/watch a DVD/text, or anything else other than paying attention to traffic around you
* The breakdown lane is the passing lane, where you drive 15+mph over the limit and yield to NO ONE
* 35 mph zone means tailgate the person in front of you, or pass them
* 45 mph zone means drive 30-35mph
* turn indicators are NOT to be used at any time (unless you're a police officer, in which case you signal AFTER you turn)
* Traffic cops never enforce the speed limit except on open highways when "speeding" causes zero safety issues - oh, and don't enforce actual safety laws. You NEVER see traffic cops enforcing speed limits in school zones. In fact if you try to drive the limit in a school zone, there will always be someone following 1' behind you
* Senseless anti-texting laws are passed, while STILL not enforcing improper lane changes, failure to yield, failure to stop at traffic signals/stop signs, traveling in the passing lane, passing on the right, tailgating, traveling in the breakdown lane, or other safety-related laws - which if enforced would result in fewer accidents and would negate any need for hard-to-enforce anti-texting laws (which by the way will result in false accusation against GPS users)
The driving here sucks. It is so refreshing when I travel out west or down south - people are MUCH more polite pretty much everywhere south and west of NJ and NY - anywhere north and east of those borders the driving gets worse and worse, with the very worst drivers, in NJ, CT, NYC (NY is fine after you get outside of the greater NYC region) and of course, Massachusetts. RI is marginally less bad for driving than the surrounding states.
Same goes with ebay. As a seller, I can't leave negative feedback for buyers, so I figure I can't really leave positive feedback either since it's positive or nothing. Their feedback system is now fundamentally broken and any use of it is just furthering their fraudulent assertion of usefulness.
They had to do that because scammers and just plain crappy vendors were leaving negative feedback in response to disputes, honest bad feedback, or even neutral (not bad) feedback.
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Like the anon coward that some fanboi modded troll, I'll second "half the internet has reported that bug."
I've reported it, and I got told it is my system. Er., right. One Vista Ultimate system, one Windows 7 Pro system, and SuSE linux on several systems (on different unconnected networks) all exhibit the same symptoms, and the problem didn't go away after blowing away the profile directories, and even clearing the prefetch files on the Windows boxes.
The problem starts happening sporadically, but once it does occur, it occurs more and more often. What happens is the app pins one core at 100% utilization, the application becomes very unresponsive, and if you install a Firefox Restart extension, anywhere from one to five minutes will pass between hitting "ctrl-alt-r" and the application actually terminating and restarting.
Firebug is not the issue, nor is Google Toolbar, nor is Web Developer Toolbar. It's not lack of RAM, nor a corrupt profile, nor an extension (it will eventually occur on a completely empty, new profile and once it starts it occurs often). The problem is Firefox. It's a real bug, and unfortunately I don't think any end users are going to run a debugger to capture a trace. I certainly am not going to - I have my own work to do. If Firefox had any sort of logging mechanism for tracking this stuff, I'd gladly capture a few logs and submit them, but it doesn't so I won't.
But to mod people down because you disagree with them, or call them liars because they report this very common problem with Firefox is just plain stupid.
Economy of scale. I mean, really, what can you buy with DisplayPort interfaces?
Let's see:
Apple Macintoshes
High end workstation (NVIDIA Quadro and ATI/AMD) graphics cards
Huge high end monitors
Dell Precision Mobile Workstations (notebooks with desktop chipsets shoved into them!)
. . . and not a lot else.
Oh and as far as the alleged "unlicensed" passive DisplayPort to HDMI dongles and cables? They work just fine with both Macs and Dell Precision notebooks.
Sure, you have to run separate cables for audio, the cable is bulkier, thumbscrews rather than a clip for securing it in place -- what? Oh, you did? Oh, he asked about redeeming features. Sorry, aside from the scads of DVI and VGA monitors already deployed and the easy compatibility, I can't think of any.
And, in both cases, compatibility issues are easily addressed via DisplayPort to DVI* and DisplayPort to VGA* cables.
*may require an active adapter unless the DisplayPort has those features integrated
What I want to know is this: are they making a xen kernel and associated packages available? That's what I really need. Before you say "build your own" I'll point out that if I had the time for that, I would, but I don't want to have to rebuild the kernel and dependent modules every time a patch is released.
"nobody" meaning you and two other people, plus iDevice users.
Everyone else who uses youtube, yahoo, gaming sites, and so on installs flash. I had flash on my iPhone (Frash - a port of android's flash), until an ios update broke it.
Do you have aspergers' syndrome or some other form of mild autism? "Rapidly" is not an absolute term; it is a relative term. In this case, "Rapidly" would mean "far more quickly than if presentation and logic are mixed into a spaghetti dish"
I know, I fed the troll. Shame on me!
And, you don't have to listen if you have the right to be there; you can ask "am I being detained, or am I free to go?" and if they are not detaining you and it is public property accessible to all, you have a right to ignore him and stay there.
. . . at which point the officer will continue to behave unlawfully and tase you.
So, what you are saying is to purge everything which makes Facebook worthwhile to the masses? What else could possibly give Google+ an opportunity to instantly overtake Facebook? :)
IMHO it was a bargain - MySQL has worked up until now, it is still working, so as far as I am concerned that's a big success story for such a low-end free/free database - and it was a choice they made based on what they already had skills in and it enabled them to earn billions, so it was a very smart, inexpensive way for them to get started. Now for Facebook, spending a few million to get on to big iron is cheap money, whereas back in the day spending a week or two to really learn the ins and outs of Postgres or spending thousands on Oracle could have prevented them from surviving in the first place.
And, to add to that, Facebook is insane if they didn't implement what is commonly called an "access layer" for abstraction, so that the system can be rapidly ported from one RDBMS to another. However, even if they did implement that in their architecture, some issues come up: is it implemented throughout the project, or did some developers bypass it for performance, and is it intermingled with presentation code? Can they re-implement the access layer without performance suffering? Does the new RDBMS provide similar performance under their circumstances (a faster DBMS isn't always faster if it's not highly optimized for a corner case that another RDBMS by pure chance happens to excel at).
So no, it's not a matter of export/import and forget about it, but if they were smart about it from the very beginning (doubtful) it could be painful - and even if they did have the foresight to make it modular, it doesn't mean that Oracle would actually perform better for them.
But, I think few outside of Facebook would know the answer to those questions, and I think given the size Facebook has grown to, I'm sure that they have the staff on hand to keep it under control. I'm far more interested in learning what Google uses on their back end for a database that rarely if ever breaks under the immense load Google faces. THAT is more impressive than Facebook, IMHO because as far as I am concerned Facebook doesn't really matter since it's not essential; it's just a toy, but Google is essential.
SQL is a standard, but no, "SQL" isn't standard. There are syntax differences between databases, and if you get into stored procedures (or equivalent) and triggers (or equivalent), or rely on referential integrity (which is implemented on some RDBMS systems, but not others, and doesn't always work the same), it won't be a matter of dumping the database from one RDBMS and then importing it to another RDBMS. Things are going to break.
I'd hate to have to deal with a(-) Facebook dump file(s); I'm sure everything isn't crammed into a single table, or even a single database, but I'd imagine must be a horrible, fragile, scary mess even if the architecture is sound.
That's the beauty of MySQL, Postgres, etc. come into play - not only are they easily scalable, but they are open source so if you are a large organization, you can cook your own fork and address the shortcomings, unlike smaller organizations which lack the resources to even consider the "it's open source, fix it yourself" mantra. In fact, it'd be neat if for once Facebook does something less than evil and contributes significant enhancements to MySQL.
I started wearing my watch on my right wrist about 15 years ago - when I bought my first real sportscar (I almost always choose manual transmissions). I figured it made more sense since that hand is always used for shifting, etc.while my left hand almost never leaves the steering wheel. :)
your work will^H^H^H^Hshould qualify as prior art
I fixed that for you. In this day and age where a patent clerk's "research" consists of searching for his rubber stamp to approve the app and grant the patent (usually on stuff a simple google query would show a googleplex worth of results for), you have to wait to duke it out in court and go broke defending yourself against a patent which should never have made it TO the application process, let alone be granted patent protection.
In a related story, S3 apparently still exists!
As is every web site, including /.
I am so sick of the "cloud" buzzword as it is completely meaningless.
Why not? AndLinux makes Windows tolerable. :)
Sandals invariably reek though, requiring frequent applications of tea tree oil or febreeze.
tagged mmmchocolateomnomnom :-)
Ah yes, Massachusetts. This is the state^H^H^H^H^Hcommonwealth where:
* Yield means "Gun it and cut off other people at all costs"
* Red means "You don't have to stop for another three seconds. Nail the thottle, damn it!"
* Four way stop works in LIFO fashion, meaning "You're the last person to stop? You're the first person to go," whereas in every other state they're FIFO
* The left lane is where you drive 5mph under while reading a book, texting, and applying makeup/styling hair/shaving/eating a seven course dinner/watch a DVD/text, or anything else other than paying attention to traffic around you
* The breakdown lane is the passing lane, where you drive 15+mph over the limit and yield to NO ONE
* 35 mph zone means tailgate the person in front of you, or pass them
* 45 mph zone means drive 30-35mph
* turn indicators are NOT to be used at any time (unless you're a police officer, in which case you signal AFTER you turn)
* Traffic cops never enforce the speed limit except on open highways when "speeding" causes zero safety issues - oh, and don't enforce actual safety laws. You NEVER see traffic cops enforcing speed limits in school zones. In fact if you try to drive the limit in a school zone, there will always be someone following 1' behind you
* Senseless anti-texting laws are passed, while STILL not enforcing improper lane changes, failure to yield, failure to stop at traffic signals/stop signs, traveling in the passing lane, passing on the right, tailgating, traveling in the breakdown lane, or other safety-related laws - which if enforced would result in fewer accidents and would negate any need for hard-to-enforce anti-texting laws (which by the way will result in false accusation against GPS users)
The driving here sucks. It is so refreshing when I travel out west or down south - people are MUCH more polite pretty much everywhere south and west of NJ and NY - anywhere north and east of those borders the driving gets worse and worse, with the very worst drivers, in NJ, CT, NYC (NY is fine after you get outside of the greater NYC region) and of course, Massachusetts. RI is marginally less bad for driving than the surrounding states.
Ah yes, Massachusetts. This is the state^H^H^H^H^Hcommonwealth where:
* Yield means "Gun it and cut off other people at all costs"
* Red means "You don't have to stop for another three seconds. Nail the thottle, damn it!"
* Four way stop works in LIFO fashion, meaning "You're the last person to stop? You're the first person to go," whereas in every other state they're FIFO
* The left lane is where you drive 5mph under while reading a book, texting, and applying makeup/styling hair/shaving/eating a seven course dinner/watch a DVD/text, or anything else other than paying attention to traffic around you
* The breakdown lane is the passing lane, where you drive 15+mph over the limit and yield to NO ONE
* 35 mph zone means tailgate the person in front of you, or pass them
* 45 mph zone means drive 30-35mph
* turn indicators are NOT to be used at any time (unless you're a police officer, in which case you signal AFTER you turn)
* Traffic cops never enforce the speed limit except on open highways when "speeding" causes zero safety issues - oh, and don't enforce actual safety laws. You NEVER see traffic cops enforcing speed limits in school zones. In fact if you try to drive the limit in a school zone, there will always be someone following 1' behind you
* Senseless anti-texting laws are passed, while STILL not enforcing improper lane changes, failure to yield, failure to stop at traffic signals/stop signs, traveling in the passing lane, passing on the right, tailgating, traveling in the breakdown lane, or other safety-related laws - which if enforced would result in fewer accidents and would negate any need for hard-to-enforce anti-texting laws (which by the way will result in false accusation against GPS users)
The driving here sucks. It is so refreshing when I travel out west or down south - people are MUCH more polite pretty much everywhere south and west of NJ and NY - anywhere north and east of those borders the driving gets worse and worse, with the very worst drivers, in NJ, CT, NYC (NY is fine after you get outside of the greater NYC region) and of course, Massachusetts. RI is marginally less bad for driving than the surrounding states.
What was the name of that documentary, and is it on Netflix?
They had to do that because scammers and just plain crappy vendors were leaving negative feedback in response to disputes, honest bad feedback, or even neutral (not bad) feedback.
How can anyone claim reviews on Amazon aren't honest when there are reviews like this one or like this one?
Unfortunately they can't without paying royalties; that business method has already been patented.
Oh you're right! I should have checked mine before posting based on a google search. Mine is at 12.0.742.100