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by Annatar 5y ago
Without taking the aforementioned steps I specified, power loss is not an atomic event, because most databases nowadays rely on the fsync(2) system call to tell them when the I/O has completed. If the fsync(2) call is unreliable becaus
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by Annatar 5y ago
SmartOS does not come with a web GUI; Triton is completely optional and isn't required at all, but if one is running 100,000 servers or more, it's there as a gratis option if one needs one. As far as I am aware, and please correct
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Or just do the work like a professional, link dynamically and build OS packages for the operating systems which you have qualified and can guarantee that your software will work on. And take pride in the level of quality you are capable of
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https://rom-o-matic.eu/ is a broken link. https://blog.haschek.at/2020/the-perfect-file-server.html is made obsolete by SmartOS, which does the exact same thing, in addition to offering Triton (enterpr
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by Annatar 5y ago
Economies which run on debt are doomed to crash. Other than paying off that debt, there is no way to prevent the oncoming crash. If you understood how money is created out of thin air because banks are only required to put forward a small f
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by Annatar 5y ago
You need to be running the database on a correctly working operating system. Since the database relies on the system calls like fsync() working correctly, the filesystem must also work correctly, the stable storage must have write caching t
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That's not how database backup works: either you use a tool like RMAN, which knows about internal Oracle database structures, or you must shut a database down in order to do a cold backup. As there is no such thing as database shutdown
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It's unbelievably powerful, lightweight and there's not much it can't do. I agree, but there is one thing that it cannot do, one very important, critical thing: synchronous multimaster replication. Well, vanilla PostgreSQL
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Debt is NEVER a positive thing; not even when it's leveraged, not even when it's used to lower one's taxes. All debt is toxic, for as long as one carries debts, one is not free, not to mention that in case of non-liquidity id
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by Annatar 5y ago
The people aren't poor, even though the country is poor on paper, but Croatia isn't really poor, because the people have cash stashed away and the rest of their savings are in real estate ownership. And then there is the matter of
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by Annatar 5y ago
I didn't mention, nor did I refer to any issues, so whatever you are stating here is none of my concern, nor does it have anything whatsoever to do with anything I wrote about, nor does it have anything whatsoever to do with me. I also
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by Annatar 5y ago
That's because in Croatia, banks have often been the focal points of financial crime deeply intertwined with political crime; as the justice system isn't functional, the banks constantly and literally swindled citizens, so the ave
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Croatia is anything but poor; can you imagine how rich a country must be to support Western Europe with labor, natural resources, defense and financial wealth for 600 years without interruptions? I know of no other country which has managed
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by Annatar 5y ago
STREAMS still work.
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by Annatar 6y ago
Nothing is lost. If you are IT professionals, it's your job to advise clients what to run, not the other way around. I know that when it comes to computers, everyone feels like they have something to say, but it's just like any ot
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by Annatar 6y ago
No, I haven't. My point on the other hand is that all that flapping in the fly.io article is too complex and completely unnecessary because that problem can be solved with a better, simpler solution which has existed far longer.
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by Annatar 6y ago
Never! And Linux will go out of fashion soon anyway, as is the norm in IT.
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How did UNIX lose out to NT, when market forces coerced Microsoft to include a shoddy copycat version of UNIX named GNU/Linux inside of NT? That is almost the ultimate punishment for Dave "Gettabyte" Cutler, the father of NT
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by Annatar 6y ago
As root run catman -w just once to (re)build the index. Results are guaranteed to be of high quality only on a real UNIX, preferrably one of open source Solaris (illumos) distributions, and likely FreeBSD.
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by Annatar 6y ago
Then that person is the wrong person for the job.
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by Annatar 6y ago
what do I do apart from searching on the internet? On a real UNIX like HP-UX, IRIX, Solaris, FreeBSD or illumos (and any of its distributions), you'd run catman -w as root only once for the lifetime of the system, then run: man -
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by Annatar 6y ago
All these contortions and complications, instead of just learning how to make pkgsrc packages, going to SmartOS and running in zones. Unbelievable, how needlessly complex this is. Awful.
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by Annatar 6y ago
To be pedantic, Red Sector Inc. ("RSI") was the first with the "RSI demomaker" back in 1990 / 1991, which predates everybody and their brother. Just don't retort with 711's intro designer III ( https:&#x2F
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by Annatar 6y ago
Of course; we have a long tradition, as we have existed for many decades now.
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The way this is traditionally done is by writing a demomaker tool, then writing a player for the procedures (instructions) which the demomaker generates. One can then generate the instructions to the 3D rendering engine and the highly custo
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by Annatar 6y ago
For years I worked one week on rotation doing database support for "developers" while I worked in the database engineering department. For every one legitimate bug, there were 99 cases where a familiar pattern consistently emerged
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by Annatar 6y ago
COBOL I learned on ran under MS-DOS, which does not have record oriented I/O, and it was fast. Very fast.
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To COBOL's defence, the compiler generates very fast machine code, so COBOL is all right in my book id est screwing around with the intricacies of that language is okay since the end result is a fast, small program. Based on these two
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by Annatar 6y ago
More cancel culture and censorship is exactly what we need, because that's been proven to be so immensely effective in humanity's past. Let us also not forget that we are not allowed to be politically incorrect, we all have to be
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by Annatar 6y ago
More absurdity: this a place where one is asked a question, answers it honestly and gets punished for it.

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