to fool add/remove programs: you'd need to edit the MSI database on the machine. otherwise at some point MSI will recognize that the packages are invalid and will ask you to put in a disk to repair them
good luck trying to ddos Windows Update:)
here is a place where defense in depth helps.
MBSA is basically a windows version of tripwire, and WU / MBSA exchanges are cryptographically signed, etc.
please re-read what i said. Xbox is ahead of Gamecube in the US in terms of units sold.
It also has the highest attach rate of any modern console system.
Splinter Cell for Xbox outsold Metroid Prime for GameCube during the same pre-christmas sale period. Metroid has been a US money maker for over a decade and the most highly anticipated cube title. Splinter cell, a brand new license from ubisoft, a non-first party publisher releases a title that beats it.
It is only Microsofts poor showing in Japan which keeps xbox a qualified success instead of an outright one.
(and DOA:XBV drove japanese fans wild, selling more xboxes with its introduction than had been sold to date, iirc, so indications that ms is starting to get a clue in the japanese market are slowly materializing)
bollocks. xbox live has smashed projections and MS has the highest game-attach rate of any modern console.
Xbox is not a failure. KOTOR has been selling like hot cakes since its release last week. MS has come into an industry dominated by sony and already displaced nintendo in the US for the #2 spot. MS has the #1 online system for consoles after less than a year.
Sony is slowly recalling their previous PS3 hype and backpedalling on all their statements about PS3. Thats the penalty for cranking out hype way ahead of itme ot try and buy time to make something real. It worked to kill the dreamcast, but it wont work with xbox.
(see also: PS3 WONT have the Cell chip in it)
Xbox will probably not beat PS2 for this generation, but i do expect it to reach parity. PS3 vs XBox2 is a level playing field, IMO.
joseph smith had the supernatural ability to read some bronze tablets he found buried somewhere in the united states.
he also had the worlds most trusting and devoted wife. when she caught him cheating on her with another woman, his story was "an angel told me i should have multiple wives". I guess when an angel gives you adivce you get right down to business without letting anyone know. However, i think in joe's excitement he neglected to actually marry the girl he was nailing until after he announced the whole multiple wives thing. (details, details).
you also probably don't have the kind of mind capable of coming up with a sacrament of marrying living people to dead people (after all, dead people that didn't die mormons don't have a chance of getting into the "best" heaven without being married to a true mormon, what better time to get married than after you're dead ?)
its probably a pretty tenuous point to call joseph smiths work a "bible";)
the exact words are important. playing fast and loose with the word of god is a slippery slope that very quickly turns into "the parts of the bible that are convenient for my world view today are the parts that he _meant_, and the rest is just filler!"
imagine this conversation, at the gates:
God: so what was this business about you side stepping the "don't divorce" part ?
Person: well, i thought that was a bit outdated and mostly just a metaphor. what you meant was that i should be faithful while i was married
God: thanks for correcting me. Now, did you miss that part where i said "this is the word of the LORD"
Person: well sure, but you don't cover this...
God: and those other parts where i explicitly say under what circumstances divorce _is_ allowed ? i don't recall inspiring anybody to write "when she gets a bit older" as one of the conditions...
Person: well, i thought that was kind of ambiguous, and my sitation is kind of unique...
God: listen buddy, i made you, and i knew everything you'd ever do before there was anybody around to write a bible. did you think your "unique situtation" would catch me off guard ? that we'd have this chat, and i'd end up revising the bible to fix my oversight ?
Person:...
People that ignore the bible may spend a lot of time in church, but probably aren't christians. Nobody can claim to know for sure that they have the correct interpretation of the word, but i think the balance of the difficulty is living as you are commanded, not in understanding the commands. as far as i know, if you read the bible and honestly misunderstand it, you won't be judged. nobody can have a perfect understanding of the word, but as long as you dont knowingly turn against what you have read and understood, you should be alright.
I think accessibility of the bible is virtue. Sure, if the basic message is easy to explain in a few sentences, and any common man can understand it, well, i could see how that would be uninteresting to a weekend theologian intellectual. But why whould it be any other way ? The word of god is for everyone, not just the people too smart and too proud to actually abide in it.
the fact that the gutenberg bible DOES say the same thing as so many other bibles IS important.
One of the key tenets of non-denominational christianity is that the bible is the unaltered word of god.
critics of christianity usally attempt an attack along the lines of "how do you know that somebody didn't mess with the bible at some point?". the response is typically two pronged
1) its god. if he doesn't want you messing with the bible, you don't get to
2) an exhaustive linguistic and archaelogical study of all known copies of the bible, cross referencing them and looking for discrepancies
each widely available copy of the bible aids the latter. (incidentally, i've read that many biblical scholars beleive that of all the hundreds of translations and versions of the bible since 0 AD, they are better than 99% in agreement with each other *1)
I personally dont have what it takes to put a gutenberg bible to use. But i do know someone that has a greek bible that she refers to from time to time. There are people for whom having this additional resource available may be useful, and those people no longer have to be legendary world scholars.
Since Sony bought Intertrust to play litigation games, it only seems reasonable that Microsoft could buy sony to end them.
Were it not for regulations, Microsoft could also buy Sony, if it wanted to.
Market cap for SNE: $29B
Cash on hand for MS: > $29B
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im not sure this post makes any sense.
Premise: Satan beleives God is real.
Conclusion: We should tell Christians to stop beleiving in God, because Satan does it.
Surely you've heard that "the meek shall inherit the earth" from some book in wide circulation.
It is not strength that christrians do/do not have an issue with so much as PRIDE. Separating strength and pride is key to christianity
Also, are we talking about physical strength, or RESOLVE ? The majority of stories from the bible have characters that are physically weak but have tremendous RESOLVE. Physical strength would be a gift from God, to be used for divine purposes and done so humbly. RESOLVE is a personal choice, in christian thought, the choice to continue doing what is commanded regardless of the unpleasant consequences.
Of course, that is how it should be. Everyone who works should be drawing a fair wage and nobody, working or not, should be drawing multi-million dollar salaries on the backs of said workers
Well, clearly, thats how you feel. In my experience people that use the word "Should" a lot are generally best kept away from legislative bodies.
If you don't want a CEO to take the money off your back, don't work for one. Plenty of people seem to be ok doing precisely that.
Regulating the US economy to fit your ideas seems like a terrible idea.
An economy where you have the choice to do what you like (and I have the choice to do what I like, and the CEO of OurCEOisAnAsshole, INC, can do what she chooses) seems better than one where people doing the "right" thing out of legislation, instead of compulsion.
because techies beleive that they are smart, and solve problems instead of create them. they aspire to be the best they can be and cannot stand mediocrity.
unions create mediocrity. they hold back the group to drag along the stragglers. they stifle personality. they add inefficiency.
a tech union would be nothing more than a band of mediocre complainers, only differeint from a standard Joe sixpack in their collective beverage choice
People still come to US schools to learn about basically anything.
Get a job as a tenured professor at a state college. You become a state employee, with awesome benefits, and are basically impossible to fire (unless you're a republican and let someone find out)
The salaries of professors of state institutions are a matter of public record. Many of them are paid better then you are.
why should a bunch of people from all over the world be able to clone expensive microsoft software and give it away for free ? why should random programmers off the street get to freely clone the user interface, protocols, and functionality that cost microsoft so much to develop ? what are all those microsoft employees supposed to do ? dont people realize that the majority of tax revenue in some places comes from microsoft ? if people are cloning microsoft software for free and anyone can use it, how can a microsoft employee hope to feed her family ?
actually its funny you should ask - I designed the system where by which we throw w2k server on a few hundred boxes in parallel. it takes about 15 minutes. works for any MS OS since win95.
they come up, rename themselves to the appropriate hostname, do the right domain joining, and start running the tests they're supposed to be running. when they're done running tests, they'll repeat the process (into some other OS, most likely) to start running some other tests. machines running XP even auto-activate themselves:)
there are commercial systems that do some of this (Altiris comes to mind) but ours has a few advantages w.r.t what we evaluated.
incidentally, the system i described is being replaced with something else (homegrown) that requires even less expertise setting up images and works on more different types of hardware...
IOW, we have getting windows on lots of machines quickly down to a science. Down the hall from me is a room full of 500 machines and i can have any number of them in any combination of about 250 different localized Microsoft operating systems in less than 20 minutes.
anyway, i think this conversation is coming to an end. its great that you've got a good business going where you can turn free software into real solutions for people. Based on my experiences, I have my doubts that any freeware rdbms system can replace SQL server in the way that I currently employ it.
your first statement doesn't jive with the second.:)
you rightly say to avoid refined sugars, and that different carbs do different things to you.
but you first said that its all about calories.
thats about as empty as saying "the key to scoring with women, is the _intercourse_"
then the third thing you say - stick with starches - is a baaaaad idea.
here's what i currently understand to be the case: (based on the book "The Sugar Busters Diet", recommended to me by my doctor to try and avoid the onset of Type2 diabeties)
the majority of fat on our bodies comes from sugars. Eating any food with a high glycemic index will elevate the blood sugar level in the body. The pancreas secretes insulin to lower the blood sugar level. Insulin is the hormone that tells fat cells to open the gates and suck as much sugar out of the blood as possible.
See many thin diabetics ?
refined sugars and fast-burning carbs cause a glycemic reaction that effectively means your blood sugar level spikes. the body must gush insulin into the bloodstream to back that away into fat cells as fast as possible, because there's no way you could legitimately burn the energy stored in all that sugar in time to regulate your blood sugar back down via consumption. oh, theres a nice vicious cycle effect here as well. See, the more insulin you have in your blood, the more your body's cells are likely to develop insulin resistance. So you already need elevated insulin to quell the shitty food you just ate. Then you need to supplement that insulin because your body responds to it at a reduced rate. the pancreas eventually gives up, running at a dually accelerated rate. poor food choices are a 1-2 punch that basically guarantee type2 diabeties in people, which is why 30 and 40 year olds are getting it in droves.
the shitty thing about this is polluting your bloodstream with a glycemic spike means that all subsequent food you eat - no matter how healthy - goes straight to fat until the suger level is under control. the helpful, natural sugars in fruits? - straight to fat, because you've still got more blood sugar than you can handle.
Starch incidentally is one of the worst things to eat, because its turned into sugar by the body in an extremely fast and efficient manner. A baked potato is equivalent to between 50 and 85% of its volume of table sugar, from a blood sugar perspective. Nobody would knowingly eat that much refined sugar!!
Non diet pop is the absolute worst, however. It is literally bottled poison. There are more than 10 teaspoons of sugar in a can of coke. There is infact so much sugar in there that they salt it up a little to balance the taste. (why do you think pop is high in sodium ?)
case in point: on the nutrition card at burger king, they list the nutrition info for a extra-king size Coke. its 950 calories, and 108 GRAMS of sugar.
lets do some math - 108 grams is a tenth of a kilogram, and a kilogram is 2.2 pounds, so 108 grams is.22 pounds, or a QUARTER POUND. There is a QUARTER POUND of sugar in a king-size coke from burger king. Nobody in their right mind would knowingly add a quarter pound of table sugar to a beverage. the refined foods industry in the US is doing its population a huge disservice. Unfortuneately, heavily sweetened foods taste better, so people buy them. But the costs are staggering. obesity will replace smoking as the #1 killer in america within the next few years. Childhood obesity is estimated at almost 50%.
THe faster you cut all high glycemic foods out of your diet, the happier you'll be. (you being the "general you")
No, that page says if you're using Weblogic (crap), and shitty JDBC drivers, then the perf will be shitty. Try the test again with real (ahem) JDBC drivers.
Oh, and it also says that once you use asp.net it blows everything else out of the water. You can try and convince me that $OS + BEA + Oracle is cheaper than W2K3 + IIS + ASP.NET + SQL, but given that IIS and ASP.NET come with a Server2k3 license, all you have to buy is the OS and the database. And guess which one is faster ?
Almost 41% faster, according to the benchmark you linked to.
fwiw, i dont consider mysqldump a backup solution:)
Listen. I _came_ from unix land before i got where i am now. I know time hasn't stopped still, but i still have vivid memories of what life was like. My home network has an openbsd machine, a sun machine, an OSX machine, 2 windows machines, and a Silicon Graphics machine. I "gave linux a try" years ago, starting with kernel.98. Will you tell me i need to keep trying it over and over until i agree with you ?:)
perhaps i wasn't clear enough in my original comments.
my issue isn't that the "controls" in linux are different.
the issue is that the car sucks to drive unless your an automotive engineer and are willing to waste your time screwing with it. if you dont happen to be an automotive engineer already, get friendly with your mechanic.
If someone asked, "What's worse, giving money to Microsoft or Saddam Hussein?", it'd still be giving money to MS.
I can see that discussion with you on any subject is not going to be productive.
Let me break it down for you.
In the Red(mond) corner, we have a
- company that produces software which people have a choice to not buy, and not use
In the other corner we have a
- person responsible for tens of thousands of murders, destroying the economy of a nation, gassing his own people, provoking wars with other nations, etc.
How the fuck can you even make that comparison with a straight face ? What flavor of defective are you?! Please find a suitable rope and pull yourself back to reality. Software choice may be an important issue, but please keep it in perspective. Nobody at microsoft is murdering anybody based on what software they buy (or dont buy) Do you actually think "giving money to murderers" is better than "giving money to a software company" ?
I'm not sure what things are like in austrailia, but i am not sure it is a self evident truth that the government has a responsibilty to make digital information conveniently consumable. regardless, even if they decide that is a priority, using MS software doesn't make that an impossibility..
Re: word saving as an open, non binary format
I believe you'll find that Word has saved and read HTML for a number of years.
My concern is NOT cost. My concern is about the effectiveness of government employees, and my worry is against ANY move that requires hiring more warm bodies for government work, as government is roughly the least respectable, least efficient organization (at least here in the states)
would you choose a shitty car that broke all the fucking time and didn't use a normal steering wheel, a standard gear lever, or a wheel-mounted stalk for a turn indicator, but you were provided with the wiring diagrams and a box of cheap wrenches ?
-OR-
A toyota.
Which would your parents choose ? Which would a politician choose ? Remember, the goal here is to drive. Not to fuck about with cars.
Here's another question to consider:
"Which is worse - giving money to microsoft, or hiring additional government employees to support open source"
carefully consider the salary and competance of government workers.
Re: your first question No. We don't host any of our SQL boxes on NT4. We use W2k or W2k3 only. While we understand that NT4 has a huge installed base, there is no reason to continue using it apart from intertia, as W2k is superior in mostly everyway. In our situation, the cost of NT4 vs W2k is of course not an issue. Given that NT4 is 7 years old and EOL, it might be worth investigating a move onto a more recent platform, especially if you are convinced NT4 is at the heart of your troubles.
The performance counters available from both the OS and SQL itself should be extremely helpful in determining any slowdown. Additionally, SQL Profiler may help you discover what is happening in the system during the slowdown periods. Typically when we see slowdowns its because an errant client is holding onto lots of locks. I wrote a performance counter that queries master..sysprocesses and master..syslockinfo to give me lock information at a glance, so I can tell readily if there are any abnormal locking conditions before clients notice.
re: integrity check please tell me more about what exactly is being run and how often. Index maintenance and statistics regeneration will of course improve performance, but if you actually notice degredation in the space of a week you should clearly try running those every night after hours and see if it makes a difference.
I am still not sure where data loss would come from, except perhaps a query being chosen as a deadlock victim (two long running queries are competing for resources and lest they both time out, one is chosen and killed so that the other completes.. however the message reported when this happens is so blatant and verbose there is NO WAY to not realize it has happened unless you just simply don't do any return code checking anywhere:)
I'm going to be pretty explicit about this - if SQL server is slow, you're doing something wrong. Either the hardware isn't there, or the maintenance isn't being done often/well enough, or the optimizations don't fit the real-world usage models. Have you ever run the index tuning wizard ? (or, there is an NT4 mystery problem, which seems to be your theory ?)
What is the multitude of stable, fast, and free RDBMS ? I was under the impression if you wanted something that was SQL compliant you were stuck with Postgres. Which ones am I missing ?
Here's a compelling argument for SQL server scalability and performance:
http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_perf_result s. asp?resulttype=all
See #2, #3, #5, #6, #8 ? Half of the top 10 tpc record holders are SQL server. the #2 record held for nearly 2 years (IBM just submitted a score that beats it on June 30). The second place entry - the former champ - MS SQL server - was submitted in 2001 - using pentium IIIs.
Oracle is of course at the bottom of the list.
But here's the real reason to use SQL Server - you can have the worlds best performing database (i suspect SQL will retake the crown from DB2 very shortly) as shrinkwrapped, off the shelf software. Anybody can install it, anybody can administer it with a few wizards, and once you get it setup well, you can pretty much forget about it. Yet if you're an advanced user, there is more than enough there to keep you busy tuning and fiddling, getting that last ounce of performance. It can scale down to the most mundane tasks (MSDE) or to suitably relevant ones (Worlds fastest database, tpc council, see above link)
Have you tried _installing_ oracle ?:)
re: faster than mySQL - i am willing to claim that on a wide variety of larger workloads, SQL server will outperform mySQL. It is my experience that mySQL has a very narrow niche under which it absolutely excels, and outside of this all bets are off. does mySQL support blobs ? What about the TEXT type ? How is its text searching ? UNICODE fields ? Hell, last time i used mySQL extensively the backup story was "take db offline, copy ISAM fi
you're just trolling me, i think. your experiences sound bad, but they don't really bear any similarity to the experience i've had, or the experiences of many much bigger organizations. I'm sorry you've had them, but in the process of trying to understand your greivances im receiving more noise than signal, it seems.
i asked you to show me a reproducible scenario where SQL server is responsible for data loss or corruption. you instead go on with a bunch of "this sucks" and "that sucks", etc. I can't help you resolve issues of "suckiness"
how can you say mySQL has _anything_ on SQL server when you think the whole issue boils down to transactions, and you totally dismiss the relevance of subselects (what databases do you design again ? for how many people ? supporting what type of business ?)
I responded to your first message because i felt like you were disgruntled with SQL or MS or both and were simplly blowing off steam, and i was asking for some factual backing or reproducible problems. Instead, im getting another rant out of you and lots of proseletyzing (sp).
I vouch 100% for SQL server's ability to do its job. If it fucks up, i get called in the middle of the night. I've been on an email thread with a vice president before regarding downtime of the system i am DBA of (it was a hardware issue, btw - SQL server was fine)
before i worked here, i worked with mySQL and SyBase. An example of mySQL not being up to the task that sticks in my mine was how we watched mySQL croak over and over again trying to keep up with our custom radius server (UUNET's Ascend MAX systems would proxy radius auth requests to our radiusd, which used mySQL as a back end..) my experience was that mySQL worked great until you flipped the magical "go into production" switch. that doesn't mean im saying mySQL sucks. Im commenting on its architecture (ISAMs) and capabilities (not at all ANSI SQL capable).
I can't beleive you'd suggest that i don't use products that I talk about. Quite the contrary - i use them for months (or years) before they actually ship. If you think they're bad in shipped from, you should see them before they're in shippable form:)
many european governments are VERY paranoid (perhaps righyfully so) about being dependant on software that is seen as "US based" -- especially Microsoft.
Munich symbolically (and financially) supports a local software company (SuSE) and also symbolically thumbs its nose at Microsoft, whom it is grudingly dependant on for the time being.
I beleive the article is basically credible. Later threads go into more detail.
I'm surprised this article made it to slashdot as well, but for different reasons. The original article was a major coup for linux beating microsoft, and here it seems that the "victory" is basically only headline deep. Few would debate the lack of anti-linux or pro-MS stories on slashdot, so im surprised this one made it through
(fwiw i heard about this elsewhere several days back)
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to fool add/remove programs:
:)
you'd need to edit the MSI database on the machine. otherwise at some point MSI will recognize that the packages are invalid and will ask you to put in a disk to repair them
good luck trying to ddos Windows Update
here is a place where defense in depth helps.
MBSA is basically a windows version of tripwire, and WU / MBSA exchanges are cryptographically signed, etc.
"Welcome to the First Annual International Gathering of Male Virgins"
"Star Trek NOW Society"
"RoboDorks"
who failed english ?
please re-read what i said. Xbox is ahead of Gamecube in the US in terms of units sold.
It also has the highest attach rate of any modern console system.
Splinter Cell for Xbox outsold Metroid Prime for GameCube during the same pre-christmas sale period. Metroid has been a US money maker for over a decade and the most highly anticipated cube title. Splinter cell, a brand new license from ubisoft, a non-first party publisher releases a title that beats it.
It is only Microsofts poor showing in Japan which keeps xbox a qualified success instead of an outright one.
(and DOA:XBV drove japanese fans wild, selling more xboxes with its introduction than had been sold to date, iirc, so indications that ms is starting to get a clue in the japanese market are slowly materializing)
bollocks. xbox live has smashed projections and MS has the highest game-attach rate of any modern console.
Xbox is not a failure. KOTOR has been selling like hot cakes since its release last week. MS has come into an industry dominated by sony and already displaced nintendo in the US for the #2 spot. MS has the #1 online system for consoles after less than a year.
Sony is slowly recalling their previous PS3 hype and backpedalling on all their statements about PS3. Thats the penalty for cranking out hype way ahead of itme ot try and buy time to make something real. It worked to kill the dreamcast, but it wont work with xbox.
(see also: PS3 WONT have the Cell chip in it)
Xbox will probably not beat PS2 for this generation, but i do expect it to reach parity. PS3 vs XBox2 is a level playing field, IMO.
here's what Joe's got on you:
;)
joseph smith had the supernatural ability to read some bronze tablets he found buried somewhere in the united states.
he also had the worlds most trusting and devoted wife. when she caught him cheating on her with another woman, his story was "an angel told me i should have multiple wives". I guess when an angel gives you adivce you get right down to business without letting anyone know. However, i think in joe's excitement he neglected to actually marry the girl he was nailing until after he announced the whole multiple wives thing. (details, details).
you also probably don't have the kind of mind capable of coming up with a sacrament of marrying living people to dead people (after all, dead people that didn't die mormons don't have a chance of getting into the "best" heaven without being married to a true mormon, what better time to get married than after you're dead ?)
its probably a pretty tenuous point to call joseph smiths work a "bible"
a truly serious what ?
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the exact words are important. playing fast and loose with the word of god is a slippery slope that very quickly turns into "the parts of the bible that are convenient for my world view today are the parts that he _meant_, and the rest is just filler!"
imagine this conversation, at the gates:
God: so what was this business about you side stepping the "don't divorce" part ?
Person: well, i thought that was a bit outdated and mostly just a metaphor. what you meant was that i should be faithful while i was married
God: thanks for correcting me. Now, did you miss that part where i said "this is the word of the LORD"
Person: well sure, but you don't cover this...
God: and those other parts where i explicitly say under what circumstances divorce _is_ allowed ? i don't recall inspiring anybody to write "when she gets a bit older" as one of the conditions...
Person: well, i thought that was kind of ambiguous, and my sitation is kind of unique...
God: listen buddy, i made you, and i knew everything you'd ever do before there was anybody around to write a bible. did you think your "unique situtation" would catch me off guard ? that we'd have this chat, and i'd end up revising the bible to fix my oversight ?
Person:
People that ignore the bible may spend a lot of time in church, but probably aren't christians. Nobody can claim to know for sure that they have the correct interpretation of the word, but i think the balance of the difficulty is living as you are commanded, not in understanding the commands. as far as i know, if you read the bible and honestly misunderstand it, you won't be judged. nobody can have a perfect understanding of the word, but as long as you dont knowingly turn against what you have read and understood, you should be alright.
I think accessibility of the bible is virtue. Sure, if the basic message is easy to explain in a few sentences, and any common man can understand it, well, i could see how that would be uninteresting to a weekend theologian intellectual. But why whould it be any other way ? The word of god is for everyone, not just the people too smart and too proud to actually abide in it.
the fact that the gutenberg bible DOES say the same thing as so many other bibles IS important.
One of the key tenets of non-denominational christianity is that the bible is the unaltered word of god.
critics of christianity usally attempt an attack along the lines of "how do you know that somebody didn't mess with the bible at some point?". the response is typically two pronged
1) its god. if he doesn't want you messing with the bible, you don't get to
2) an exhaustive linguistic and archaelogical study of all known copies of the bible, cross referencing them and looking for discrepancies
each widely available copy of the bible aids the latter. (incidentally, i've read that many biblical scholars beleive that of all the hundreds of translations and versions of the bible since 0 AD, they are better than 99% in agreement with each other *1)
I personally dont have what it takes to put a gutenberg bible to use. But i do know someone that has a greek bible that she refers to from time to time. There are people for whom having this additional resource available may be useful, and those people no longer have to be legendary world scholars.
*1: See: The Case for Christ
Since Sony bought Intertrust to play litigation games, it only seems reasonable that Microsoft could buy sony to end them.
Were it not for regulations, Microsoft could also buy Sony, if it wanted to.
Market cap for SNE: $29B
Cash on hand for MS: > $29B
im not sure this post makes any sense.
Premise: Satan beleives God is real.
Conclusion: We should tell Christians to stop beleiving in God, because Satan does it.
Surely you've heard that "the meek shall inherit the earth" from some book in wide circulation.
It is not strength that christrians do/do not have an issue with so much as PRIDE. Separating strength and pride is key to christianity
Also, are we talking about physical strength, or RESOLVE ? The majority of stories from the bible have characters that are physically weak but have tremendous RESOLVE. Physical strength would be a gift from God, to be used for divine purposes and done so humbly. RESOLVE is a personal choice, in christian thought, the choice to continue doing what is commanded regardless of the unpleasant consequences.
also, you can get an AD Client pack for Win9x that lets them speak NTLMv2, iirc.
Well, clearly, thats how you feel. In my experience people that use the word "Should" a lot are generally best kept away from legislative bodies.
If you don't want a CEO to take the money off your back, don't work for one. Plenty of people seem to be ok doing precisely that.
Regulating the US economy to fit your ideas seems like a terrible idea.
An economy where you have the choice to do what you like (and I have the choice to do what I like, and the CEO of OurCEOisAnAsshole, INC, can do what she chooses) seems better than one where people doing the "right" thing out of legislation, instead of compulsion.
because techies beleive that they are smart, and solve problems instead of create them. they aspire to be the best they can be and cannot stand mediocrity.
unions create mediocrity. they hold back the group to drag along the stragglers. they stifle personality. they add inefficiency.
a tech union would be nothing more than a band of mediocre complainers, only differeint from a standard Joe sixpack in their collective beverage choice
what stops you from being the CEO ?
People still come to US schools to learn about basically anything.
Get a job as a tenured professor at a state college. You become a state employee, with awesome benefits, and are basically impossible to fire (unless you're a republican and let someone find out)
The salaries of professors of state institutions are a matter of public record. Many of them are paid better then you are.
why should a bunch of people from all over the world be able to clone expensive microsoft software and give it away for free ? why should random programmers off the street get to freely clone the user interface, protocols, and functionality that cost microsoft so much to develop ? what are all those microsoft employees supposed to do ? dont people realize that the majority of tax revenue in some places comes from microsoft ? if people are cloning microsoft software for free and anyone can use it, how can a microsoft employee hope to feed her family ?
re: installing server systems quickly
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actually its funny you should ask - I designed the system where by which we throw w2k server on a few hundred boxes in parallel. it takes about 15 minutes. works for any MS OS since win95.
they come up, rename themselves to the appropriate hostname, do the right domain joining, and start running the tests they're supposed to be running. when they're done running tests, they'll repeat the process (into some other OS, most likely) to start running some other tests. machines running XP even auto-activate themselves
there are commercial systems that do some of this (Altiris comes to mind) but ours has a few advantages w.r.t what we evaluated.
incidentally, the system i described is being replaced with something else (homegrown) that requires even less expertise setting up images and works on more different types of hardware...
IOW, we have getting windows on lots of machines quickly down to a science. Down the hall from me is a room full of 500 machines and i can have any number of them in any combination of about 250 different localized Microsoft operating systems in less than 20 minutes.
anyway, i think this conversation is coming to an end. its great that you've got a good business going where you can turn free software into real solutions for people. Based on my experiences, I have my doubts that any freeware rdbms system can replace SQL server in the way that I currently employ it.
your first statement doesn't jive with the second. :)
.22 pounds, or a QUARTER POUND. There is a QUARTER POUND of sugar in a king-size coke from burger king. Nobody in their right mind would knowingly add a quarter pound of table sugar to a beverage. the refined foods industry in the US is doing its population a huge disservice. Unfortuneately, heavily sweetened foods taste better, so people buy them. But the costs are staggering. obesity will replace smoking as the #1 killer in america within the next few years. Childhood obesity is estimated at almost 50%.
you rightly say to avoid refined sugars, and that different carbs do different things to you.
but you first said that its all about calories.
thats about as empty as saying "the key to scoring with women, is the _intercourse_"
then the third thing you say - stick with starches - is a baaaaad idea.
here's what i currently understand to be the case: (based on the book "The Sugar Busters Diet", recommended to me by my doctor to try and avoid the onset of Type2 diabeties)
the majority of fat on our bodies comes from sugars. Eating any food with a high glycemic index will elevate the blood sugar level in the body. The pancreas secretes insulin to lower the blood sugar level. Insulin is the hormone that tells fat cells to open the gates and suck as much sugar out of the blood as possible.
See many thin diabetics ?
refined sugars and fast-burning carbs cause a glycemic reaction that effectively means your blood sugar level spikes. the body must gush insulin into the bloodstream to back that away into fat cells as fast as possible, because there's no way you could legitimately burn the energy stored in all that sugar in time to regulate your blood sugar back down via consumption. oh, theres a nice vicious cycle effect here as well. See, the more insulin you have in your blood, the more your body's cells are likely to develop insulin resistance. So you already need elevated insulin to quell the shitty food you just ate. Then you need to supplement that insulin because your body responds to it at a reduced rate. the pancreas eventually gives up, running at a dually accelerated rate. poor food choices are a 1-2 punch that basically guarantee type2 diabeties in people, which is why 30 and 40 year olds are getting it in droves.
the shitty thing about this is polluting your bloodstream with a glycemic spike means that all subsequent food you eat - no matter how healthy - goes straight to fat until the suger level is under control. the helpful, natural sugars in fruits? - straight to fat, because you've still got more blood sugar than you can handle.
Starch incidentally is one of the worst things to eat, because its turned into sugar by the body in an extremely fast and efficient manner. A baked potato is equivalent to between 50 and 85% of its volume of table sugar, from a blood sugar perspective. Nobody would knowingly eat that much refined sugar!!
Non diet pop is the absolute worst, however. It is literally bottled poison. There are more than 10 teaspoons of sugar in a can of coke. There is infact so much sugar in there that they salt it up a little to balance the taste. (why do you think pop is high in sodium ?)
case in point: on the nutrition card at burger king, they list the nutrition info for a extra-king size Coke. its 950 calories, and 108 GRAMS of sugar.
lets do some math - 108 grams is a tenth of a kilogram, and a kilogram is 2.2 pounds, so 108 grams is
THe faster you cut all high glycemic foods out of your diet, the happier you'll be. (you being the "general you")
No, that page says if you're using Weblogic (crap), and shitty JDBC drivers, then the perf will be shitty. Try the test again with real (ahem) JDBC drivers.
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.98. Will you tell me i need to keep trying it over and over until i agree with you ? :)
Oh, and it also says that once you use asp.net it blows everything else out of the water. You can try and convince me that $OS + BEA + Oracle is cheaper than W2K3 + IIS + ASP.NET + SQL, but given that IIS and ASP.NET come with a Server2k3 license, all you have to buy is the OS and the database. And guess which one is faster ?
Almost 41% faster, according to the benchmark you linked to.
fwiw, i dont consider mysqldump a backup solution
Listen. I _came_ from unix land before i got where i am now. I know time hasn't stopped still, but i still have vivid memories of what life was like. My home network has an openbsd machine, a sun machine, an OSX machine, 2 windows machines, and a Silicon Graphics machine. I "gave linux a try" years ago, starting with kernel
perhaps i wasn't clear enough in my original comments.
my issue isn't that the "controls" in linux are different.
the issue is that the car sucks to drive unless your an automotive engineer and are willing to waste your time screwing with it. if you dont happen to be an automotive engineer already, get friendly with your mechanic.
I can see that discussion with you on any subject is not going to be productive.
Let me break it down for you.
In the Red(mond) corner, we have a
- company that produces software which people have a choice to not buy, and not use
In the other corner we have a
- person responsible for tens of thousands of murders, destroying the economy of a nation, gassing his own people, provoking wars with other nations, etc.
How the fuck can you even make that comparison with a straight face ? What flavor of defective are you?! Please find a suitable rope and pull yourself back to reality. Software choice may be an important issue, but please keep it in perspective. Nobody at microsoft is murdering anybody based on what software they buy (or dont buy) Do you actually think "giving money to murderers" is better than "giving money to a software company" ?
I'm not sure what things are like in austrailia, but i am not sure it is a self evident truth that the government has a responsibilty to make digital information conveniently consumable. regardless, even if they decide that is a priority, using MS software doesn't make that an impossibility..
Re: word saving as an open, non binary format
I believe you'll find that Word has saved and read HTML for a number of years.
My concern is NOT cost. My concern is about the effectiveness of government employees, and my worry is against ANY move that requires hiring more warm bodies for government work, as government is roughly the least respectable, least efficient organization (at least here in the states)
what if i posed an alternate question to you:
would you choose a shitty car that broke all the fucking time and didn't use a normal steering wheel, a standard gear lever, or a wheel-mounted stalk for a turn indicator, but you were provided with the wiring diagrams and a box of cheap wrenches ?
-OR-
A toyota.
Which would your parents choose ? Which would a politician choose ? Remember, the goal here is to drive. Not to fuck about with cars.
Here's another question to consider:
"Which is worse - giving money to microsoft, or hiring additional government employees to support open source"
carefully consider the salary and competance of government workers.
Re: your first question
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No. We don't host any of our SQL boxes on NT4. We use W2k or W2k3 only. While we understand that NT4 has a huge installed base, there is no reason to continue using it apart from intertia, as W2k is superior in mostly everyway. In our situation, the cost of NT4 vs W2k is of course not an issue. Given that NT4 is 7 years old and EOL, it might be worth investigating a move onto a more recent platform, especially if you are convinced NT4 is at the heart of your troubles.
The performance counters available from both the OS and SQL itself should be extremely helpful in determining any slowdown. Additionally, SQL Profiler may help you discover what is happening in the system during the slowdown periods. Typically when we see slowdowns its because an errant client is holding onto lots of locks. I wrote a performance counter that queries master..sysprocesses and master..syslockinfo to give me lock information at a glance, so I can tell readily if there are any abnormal locking conditions before clients notice.
re: integrity check
please tell me more about what exactly is being run and how often. Index maintenance and statistics regeneration will of course improve performance, but if you actually notice degredation in the space of a week you should clearly try running those every night after hours and see if it makes a difference.
I am still not sure where data loss would come from, except perhaps a query being chosen as a deadlock victim (two long running queries are competing for resources and lest they both time out, one is chosen and killed so that the other completes.. however the message reported when this happens is so blatant and verbose there is NO WAY to not realize it has happened unless you just simply don't do any return code checking anywhere
I'm going to be pretty explicit about this - if SQL server is slow, you're doing something wrong. Either the hardware isn't there, or the maintenance isn't being done often/well enough, or the optimizations don't fit the real-world usage models. Have you ever run the index tuning wizard ? (or, there is an NT4 mystery problem, which seems to be your theory ?)
What is the multitude of stable, fast, and free RDBMS ? I was under the impression if you wanted something that was SQL compliant you were stuck with Postgres. Which ones am I missing ?
Here's a compelling argument for SQL server scalability and performance:
http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_perf_result s. asp?resulttype=all
See #2, #3, #5, #6, #8 ? Half of the top 10 tpc record holders are SQL server. the #2 record held for nearly 2 years (IBM just submitted a score that beats it on June 30). The second place entry - the former champ - MS SQL server - was submitted in 2001 - using pentium IIIs.
Oracle is of course at the bottom of the list.
But here's the real reason to use SQL Server - you can have the worlds best performing database (i suspect SQL will retake the crown from DB2 very shortly) as shrinkwrapped, off the shelf software. Anybody can install it, anybody can administer it with a few wizards, and once you get it setup well, you can pretty much forget about it. Yet if you're an advanced user, there is more than enough there to keep you busy tuning and fiddling, getting that last ounce of performance. It can scale down to the most mundane tasks (MSDE) or to suitably relevant ones (Worlds fastest database, tpc council, see above link)
Have you tried _installing_ oracle ?
re: faster than mySQL - i am willing to claim that on a wide variety of larger workloads, SQL server will outperform mySQL. It is my experience that mySQL has a very narrow niche under which it absolutely excels, and outside of this all bets are off. does mySQL support blobs ? What about the TEXT type ? How is its text searching ? UNICODE fields ? Hell, last time i used mySQL extensively the backup story was "take db offline, copy ISAM fi
you're just trolling me, i think. your experiences sound bad, but they don't really bear any similarity to the experience i've had, or the experiences of many much bigger organizations. I'm sorry you've had them, but in the process of trying to understand your greivances im receiving more noise than signal, it seems.
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i asked you to show me a reproducible scenario where SQL server is responsible for data loss or corruption. you instead go on with a bunch of "this sucks" and "that sucks", etc. I can't help you resolve issues of "suckiness"
how can you say mySQL has _anything_ on SQL server when you think the whole issue boils down to transactions, and you totally dismiss the relevance of subselects (what databases do you design again ? for how many people ? supporting what type of business ?)
I responded to your first message because i felt like you were disgruntled with SQL or MS or both and were simplly blowing off steam, and i was asking for some factual backing or reproducible problems. Instead, im getting another rant out of you and lots of proseletyzing (sp).
I vouch 100% for SQL server's ability to do its job. If it fucks up, i get called in the middle of the night. I've been on an email thread with a vice president before regarding downtime of the system i am DBA of (it was a hardware issue, btw - SQL server was fine)
before i worked here, i worked with mySQL and SyBase. An example of mySQL not being up to the task that sticks in my mine was how we watched mySQL croak over and over again trying to keep up with our custom radius server (UUNET's Ascend MAX systems would proxy radius auth requests to our radiusd, which used mySQL as a back end..)
my experience was that mySQL worked great until you flipped the magical "go into production" switch. that doesn't mean im saying mySQL sucks. Im commenting on its architecture (ISAMs) and capabilities (not at all ANSI SQL capable).
I can't beleive you'd suggest that i don't use products that I talk about. Quite the contrary - i use them for months (or years) before they actually ship. If you think they're bad in shipped from, you should see them before they're in shippable form
my take:
many european governments are VERY paranoid (perhaps righyfully so) about being dependant on software that is seen as "US based" -- especially Microsoft.
Munich symbolically (and financially) supports a local software company (SuSE) and also symbolically thumbs its nose at Microsoft, whom it is grudingly dependant on for the time being.
I beleive the article is basically credible. Later threads go into more detail.
I'm surprised this article made it to slashdot as well, but for different reasons. The original article was a major coup for linux beating microsoft, and here it seems that the "victory" is basically only headline deep. Few would debate the lack of anti-linux or pro-MS stories on slashdot, so im surprised this one made it through
(fwiw i heard about this elsewhere several days back)