Mickos Says MySQL Code Better Than Ever Under Oracle

I think the founder of MySQL would disagree, since he forked MySQL and started MariaDB. MySQL 5.5 was a long time coming and added quite a bit, but much of what it added was already in the stable MariaDB by the time it came out. Some of the linux distros such as debian are looking to add or switch to mariadb. I switched to MariaDB a while ago and development in MySQL looked like it was starting to stagnate. Not to go dragging out things, but look into Maria, it has quite a few bug patches, performance enhancements, features and such that MySQL lacks and may never have if Oracle splits off community development features from the "enterprise" version.

Exactly. If the browser can handle that many tabs without performance degradation and over consumption of memory, why bother having to micro manage your tab usage every time you open another? Back when I used Mozilla/Sea Monkey (before Firefox) I used to have to worry about all that and it might seem crazy for anyone who doesn't use opera to have that many tabs open. However, most opera users I know (yes, there's shockingly more than 3 of them in the world) use quite a few more tabs than any other browser on average. If I were using chrome/firefox (which I do when I test and develop since I prefer their tools for those things over dragonfly in opera), I would never open that many tabs (though obviously I cant since they consume way more memory :) ).

Just a little judgmental aren't we? Tabs for me are like temporary bookmarks. Things I will forget if I actually bookmark them or wont need later really. The rationale is if I get enough tabs open (I have a 3 30" monitors @ 2560x1600 so it's not like it's squeezed into a tiny space on my screen) that I will get annoyed enough to go back to them and read or disseminate what was useful out of them. This is just what works for me and I have 16gb of ram so no, I am not worried. Since this is slashdot (well at least it would apply on the old slashdot where it was more "news for nerds), I'm sure quite a few of us do quirky things that most wouldn't understand.

I second the opera recommendation, even if endorsing opera on slashdot means getting flak from the haters. I currently have around 140 tabs open in opera and I am only using 1200mb of ram. Try doing that in any other modern browser :)

Although they're pushing caps on everyone, many are still not affected due to AT&T's slow adoption of giving customers tools to monitor their bandwidth. DSLreports has had quite a few complaining about how their first attempt at giving a meter for bandwidth monitoring was horribly inaccurate so I assume that is why many still do not have it.

I am on their DSL where I am and I just checked today and there is no tool for me to monitor my bandwidth yet. Since there isn't one, it says that "I do not need to be worried about my usage until there is one in place."

Opera has had a similar feature for years now

Considering Greenpeace has a website themselves and one that runs a windows stack (as well plenty of bloat inducing javascript), I think they should be looking at what they can do to stop emitting CO2. Let me know when they pull the plug or at least rebuild their site using only assembly.

Very rarely (maybe once in several years) the cashier complains and I say that my zip code is 12345.

Nothing wrong with saying 12345. It is an actual zip code for Schenectady, NY. Imagine how they feel when people keep telling them their zip code is fake :)

From the past couple years, Id say if anyone gets the screwing by corporations and the government, it's the American Citizen, not the corporation. I'd say they have some sort of idea that Facebook has some sort of nasty liability (like not being worth nearly as much as they claim) that will cause them to get into more trouble like Goldman was at the start of the Economic Crisis.

Where's my cheque? (Score:1)

You know, the one for the money I loaned them via my taxes agains my will.

I didn't know American Citizens spelled check as 'cheque' unless I happened to be sleeping that day in school when we reverted back to British Spellings.

randomly read your post after one i replied to above, but i feel your pain. Read what a I wrote here and see if you like that any better. It's based on zend and zend can be kind of a clusterfuck, but it's still better than drupal.

I will raise your development friendly claim of drupal with a CMS built on the Zend Framework in php. It also has a nice Admin UI also.

Er....I meant to quote the parent there, not link something I was sending someone else on IM...sorry.

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Opera has this built in, if you right click on a page and go to edit site preferences under scripting you can turn off javascript and under content, you can turn off plugins. Normally I turn off plugins for all sites and whitelist as I go and blacklist sites for js (since it can be harder to know if you're missing something useful on a site without js than it is with flash [you're usually not missing anything with flash lol]).