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Comment Re:signs you may be ignorant twat when using brows (Score 1) 165

if you follow the tech news site articles, the domain name has been announced in those, including the most recent change of April 24th

Started 2008
changed to kat.ph in April 2011
kickass.to in June 2013
kickass.so in December 2014

then on April 23 2015 for one day kickass.tm then then next day
April 24 to kat.cr

Comment Oracle has another scam going too besides cloud on (Score 1) 184

Another scam Oracle pulling on enterprise level customers is forcing virtualized customers to buy its hardware platform, claiming that virtualization as done by the major players means all physical hardware in the cluster could potentially run Oracle so must be licensed.

Comment Re:Why does anyone use Oracle? (Score 1) 184

You lie, mysql/maria will corrupt and lose data. I've seen it again and again. Those are toys used by developers that don't know any better and so stick with the simple things they know, then businesses get stuck with that juvenile level of decision making.

Postgresql however is robust enough for mission critical data, though high performance clusters such as can be built with Oracle are not possible. No DBMS is a drop in replacement for Oracle, re-coding would be necessary.

Comment highly recommended - listens to user feedback (Score 4, Insightful) 69

Great to have a distro (or any open source project for that matter) that values user feedback and tries to meet needs, rather than having "churn and feature churn for change and hype's sake", and also for taking conservative approach to radical new things that are yet immature or just badly engineered

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