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by spudlyo 16y ago
I don't think so. In my experience, the only folks who pay for MySQL are big conservative companies who must have support contracts, and companies who bundle MySQL with their closed source products. My gut feeling is that folks who will be
902.
by spudlyo 16y ago
This is wishful thinking on your part. I know it's cool to hate on MySQL, but it's too big now for Oracle to kill. It has too large of an installed base, too much mindshare, and too strong of a community to be killed by anything Oracle
903.
by spudlyo 16y ago
This is incorrect. You can use XtraBackup for this which is an open source alternative to innodb hot backup. Alternately you can quickly lock tables and take a filesystem snapshot or even run mysqldump with --single-transaction all which
904.
by spudlyo 16y ago
... a clean room implemented, BSD licensed MySQL client library. I believe MySQL/Sun used to make a lot of money dual licensing the GPL client library. No longer!
905.
by spudlyo 16y ago
I know, it does seem the default for "delete on terminate" is wrong. Most people use EBS root volumes in an attempt to gain persistence and a level of protection against accidental termination.
906.
by spudlyo 16y ago
We’re self-hosting SVN on AWS…on our webdev server. Having all of our revision history and development code on one machine, especially one as potentially ethereal as AWS, is terrifying. You might want to investigate how to to set up an EB
907.
by spudlyo 16y ago
Seattle, WA (downtown) - www.bluegecko.net Blue Gecko (a managed database services company) is looking for a intermediate to advanced MySQL DBA. If you're a seasoned PostgreSQL DBA we'd also love to talk to you. We're a smallish (< 50
908.
by spudlyo 16y ago
He moved back to Boston and I lost touch with him. Last I heard he got married, settled down and is still writing code.
909.
by spudlyo 16y ago
In the mid 90s I lived with an MIT educated hacker who was our programming team lead. We worked on a Windows multi-protocol email client that had back ends that talked to AOL, CompuServe, PRODIGY, MCI, etc. My roommate coded nearly all of
910.
by spudlyo 16y ago
I'm sometimes annoyed by programs who won't terminate when I ask them to. When I ask a program to quit, I mean it. I don't care if work is unsaved, I don't care what it is doing on my behalf, I want it dead.
911.
by spudlyo 16y ago
I agree it's quite good, you just have to mind the sludge at the bottom. I also really like Cafe Sua Da, which can be found in Vietnamese restaurants, which is coffee with sweetened condensed milk poured over ice.
912.
by spudlyo 16y ago
Have you ever tried to stream a full-screen movie on Netflix using an MBA? It can't keep up, it's very annoying. I thought there was full-screen GPU acceleration for Silverlight, but it wasn't helped in my experience.
913.
by spudlyo 16y ago
I think you'd better serve your client if your PR machinations were a little less obvious.
914.
by spudlyo 16y ago
That's what I assume he was talking about -- the average number of processes/threads in the run queue or waiting on disk I/O for the sample period.
915.
by spudlyo 16y ago
What is load exactly? What does it mean? Discussions on threads and processes. How can two processes communicate with one another? [...] I was not prepared for some of these questions, since some of these questions were Computer Scien
916.
by spudlyo 16y ago
That may have been true prior to 1987, however since then Perl has largely superseded sed and awk.
917.
by spudlyo 16y ago
"When I hear the word 'culture', that's when I reach for my revolver."
918.
by spudlyo 16y ago
You might want to rethink that strategy just for this episode. As much as Jason annoys me (and he does) I have to give him credit for asking smart, interesting questions of Gabriel Weinberg. I didn't know much about DDG going in, and felt
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by spudlyo 16y ago
I didn't care for this video. I thought it was light on content and the narrator had some pretty annoying mannerisms. "...cuz you know, like back in the day we didn't have fancy X-windows where we could you-know move around and play on th
920.
by spudlyo 16y ago
He also mentioned he didn't want to 'risk' installing it on his server, as if PHP programs are inherently insecure.
921.
by spudlyo 16y ago
"Almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching." --Terje Mathisen
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by spudlyo 16y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one who felt that way. I fact, I stopped listening to This Week in Tech for that very reason. I felt like a lot of the people on the show, Leo included, were getting swept up in how many followers and fans they h
923.
by spudlyo 16y ago
Here is a barbaric and senseless default. Do a crontab -e without $EDITOR set and you'll be dropped into ed. I realize that it's the "standard editor" but the joke stopped being funny when I needed to edit a file with it.
924.
by spudlyo 16y ago
"We will continue to grow a vibrant developer and system administrator community for Solaris." -- I really wonder how. They really killed the wrong Solaris. If they embraced the GNU userland (as OpenSolaris did) they would have had a muc
925.
by spudlyo 16y ago
And 7 years later all evidence of this is gone from your credit history.
926.
by spudlyo 16y ago
While these kind of novelty accounts may be karmic gold mines on Reddit, I don't think you'll find the HN community a willing participant in this game.
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by spudlyo 16y ago
They both use the same collection of GNU tools and open sourced programs like FireFox, Python, etc. This is incorrect. BSD systems for the most part eschew GNU tools. You will find many annoying differences in programs you take for gran
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by spudlyo 16y ago
Most shell scripts are heaping mounds of undeclared external dependencies.
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Happy Sysadmin Appreciation Day: The Website is Down Ep #4(youtube.com)
4 points by spudlyo 16y ago|1 comments
930.
by spudlyo 16y ago
I hang out on a private IRC server with about 15 folks, mostly old friends of mine working in various parts of the industry. It's primarily a place to talk about geeky topics and complain about work.

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