Quick someone buy this man a tinfoil hat

Because Oracle does not already own the biggest programming language in the world. This all revolves around the fact that Oracle are attempting to own two of the biggest (if not the biggest) Database solutions out there.

is MySQL really an alternative to Oracle?

I mean sure it 'technically' is. But someone likely to use MySQL isnt looking for such an enterprise product such as Oracle and people looking to spend their money on Oracle can't/wont settle for MySQL. I thought this was basically what the EU said anyway.

OK, So now move all your friends from one to the other...How about messages sent to/by you...How about transferring group aliases? Nup didn't think you could manage that one.

> tiny 12 gallon tank Seriously here in the UK my (admitedly new) car has a 10 gallon tank (45 litres). I didn't think the tank was too small...On the point though, it is pushing around 600 miles upwards to a single tank of diesel.

I think half the point is electric will be offered at service stations. Like petrol.

Its more than that.

Most machines run at around 10% of all possible utilisation. Often web servers will run at less than this. In a datacenter you have two options a) run hundreds of very slow cheap machines each running one instance of your webserver. b) consolidate lots of machines onto one powerful box and running it at 70-80% utilisation.

Option b) has the advantage that should a website get hit heavily (maybe because its been linked too on /.) then you still have the beefy hardware to cope with it. You will also find heating bills go down. You'll usually even get the costs of the hardware down as well.

If your still not convinced then look at the work by most VM software manufacturers who are making it so the VM can move around on physical hardware. Now if your hardware fails - the VM and OS does not. It just moves off somewhere else and continues to operate with little/no drop in performance or uptime.

If suddenly is in say 10 years time. Then doing this research that will be much more feasible in 6 years time seems pretty smart to me. Just because the technology isnt here now doesn't mean it isnt worth preparing for its arrival

Being a student I still use Wikipedia alot of the time.

To use it successfully you just scroll to the bottom and look at all the pretty references on a subject. 90% of the time you'll find the actual journal articles.technical papers/books that you were actually after.

Wikipedia is a source of infomation. Not an information store.

I thought the whole point of cloud computing was to NOT have a single point of faliure.
So a consortium of open source advocates would be much more cloud than the SAAS of Google Amazon et. al.

I would take this as a pretty serious suggestion. This is basically what Bittorrent was made for. Transmitting large files over slow connections with a high level of reliability and a low level of re-transmition should things go wrong.

http://www.opera.com/browser/next/

Opera do not even have a message saying they Pass at 100. Actually Opera seem to feel its something their browser shuld be doing anyway - not a "goal"

Although I agree its nasty marketing - Turbo is a real benefit to people on slow net connections, such as a mobile. It basically proxies through Opera's servers and compresses everything before sending it to the phone. So as much as a clog is something too big increading pressure on a limited throughput - Turbo does unclog your connection

*Sorry Karma*

Seems to be working in Opera 10 (alpha) as well. So is it news when Firefox does it - even if its last?*

What I think is news is there seem to more browsers that support the tag that websites that use it. Must be a first for a new feature of HTML.

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*Yeah yeah I'm discounting IE.

Almost all of Cern is using CentOS and Scientific Linux (a derivative of CentOS).

Yes it is true that they are using *nix on their grid but they are also using *nix on the desktops as the best way to interface with the grid.

Up to date system requires less updating than an out of date system.

ergo he remain up to date all along.