It's CouchDB. It's that thing that tries to suck all the contacts and personal information off your computer if you're running Ubuntu, and store it with Canonical.
I think you have misunderstood exactly what CouchDB is. Its just a document db.
"In my experience databases don't do so well in virtual machines. Unless you use something like Xen."
OK, well that is what I recommended. If I am not mistaken VirtualBoz and Xen are both paravirtualization tools. Maybe I am mistaken, but I said something along the lines of VirtualBox. I cannot imagine why it would matter actually. Perhaps you can elaborate?
Also, I concede it might not be a great idea. I was just theowing it out there as an option.
Yeah, Virtualbox is NOT paravirtualization.
Oh... The requirement to reinstall the whole system every time you do a major upgrade (say, from 4 to 5).
Which OS has that requirement?
Why would you want really long term support when you have no less than a year window for a free and quite easy upgrade?
The "quite easy upgrade" is often not quite as easy as you make it out to be. Why bother to do that on a box which 100% works already (and still has security patches available for years)?
> Is this it? Why is this a function of the distributed nature of the RCS?
It's not. But essentially all DVCSes have decent (to great) merge tracking, which makes this possible. It could be done with a centralized system too.
The other big benefit is pure speed. Try switching branches on a DVCS local repo a few times, and you'll realize very quickly what a difference this can make.
Exactly... dvcs doesn't stop you from pushing into a branch on the "server" periodically. In fact, it encourages it.
I'm much more likely to keep stuff out of CVS/SVN for much longer periods of time, because the branching process is so much more time consuming.
If you want to see a really fast (and consequently dumb) JIT compiler, look at
.NET. That thing always JIT-compiles because it doesn't have a bytecode interpreter at all, so it had to be made really fast.
I don't know about the claim that the JIT compiles everything... but I do know that it does have an interpretter. Its quite possible to run the
Chrome is nice but Windows only, there's now (finally!) a Linux version, but it's so buggy that it often crashes X windows.
"If an X server crashes, its a bug in the X server"
The real question for any particular site is Silverlight Installed base + conversion rate; if they can get 80% of users who don't have Silverlight to isntall it, from a base of 30%, then they get 86% of their users with Silverlight.
And there's the real problem. Yes, they could get ~80% with enough work. Or they could just use Flash, do almost no work to convince customers, and settle for a mere 95+%.
'm quite pleased with the current rate of adoption, myself.
In looking over the stats on a fairly high traffic consumer heavy site:
Flash (9+ only): 97%
Java (1.5+): 87%
Silverlight (all versions): 20%
Silverlight (2+): 19%
Why would you use Ubuntu Server? Why not just use Debian?
Because Debian drops security updates for old versions after about 3 years (variable). LTS Ubuntu server releases are supported for 5 years, every time.
If you have 4GB (and you don't have some other bottleneck, like a dirt-old processor) you should have zero problems running any version of Visual Studio.
Thats true.
But get used to Eclipse on the same machine and it'll still seem extremely slow.
Even if you're not going this far.... the business school at Wake Forest University a few years ago suddenly became a lot more selective and shrunk the number of people it would accept.
I was once bumped from an elective for being 2 credits short of a requirement. I was told by the dean that there was no way around it. I never had another chance to take the course.
It was good for their certification compliance, but bad for me as a student (and, really, it was bad for the school as well). I came to hate these types of shenanigans.
Maybe because MS hasn't changed the
.NET API every 5 minutes with stupid trivial changes, then deprecated the old versions? Java had a horrible case of too many cooks.
Deprecated APIs have not been removed, and haven't changed nearly that often. So what are you really complaining about?
McDonald's wifi isn't free. Boingo, iPass, etc all federate to Wayport in McDonalds. It is free to AT&T Internet customers, but not the populace at large.
I am amazed that in the hundreds of comments here, yours is the only post I've seen pointing that out. I wonder why they don't manage to turn it into a profit center if there really is such high usage?
Always draw your curves, then plot your reading.
