Now,now. You can hardly expect Timothy to read back nearly a whole day's worth of stories just to do his job to a basic level of competence. That could take upwards of seconds - and he'd have to do it EVERY SINGLE DAY.

I'm guessing your god knows how to lose weight fast?

If you're using a sensible DB (these are all Postgres examples), I may be able to make your life a little easier.

If you want to compare rows, don't bother with a slow and clumsy self-join, use a windowing function and the lead/lag functions. e.g. to list the interesting events and time between them:

select date, message, lead(date) over (order by date) - date as time_to_next from log where type='interesting';

That only shows 'interesting' events, of course. If you want to show all the other events between the interesting ones as well, add a partition by clause to the windowing function to highlight interesting events, and lose the where clause.

And yeah, vim is a good quick and easy way to explore data. So in postgres, add 'export PAGER="vim -"' to your ~/.psqlrc file, and your query results automatically pop up in vim (may want to switch to unaligned output in that case using the \a toggle).

Sorry if this is off-topic, but I desperately need to find out what Sourceforge's top downloads are. Does anyone know where I can get this information???

But you'd be very likely to get Digital Region or BT Infinity, I hazard. And that's good for 40mbit (supposedly to become 80 in the not-too-distant future).

I know that slashdot is now pretty much famous for being behind the curve on geek news, but in this instance they got scooped by The Today Program on RADIO FUCKING FOUR.

For people not in the UK who don't know what that is...it's like showing off your new liquid Nitrogen GPU cooling system and your grandma saying "Oh that's nice dear, it's like the one the nurses put in the home last year".

I think maybe you're missing the point? If they offered continuous upgrades for non security reasons, they could hardly claim to offer a stable platform. If you want up-to-date packages, why not just use Fedora in the first place rather than backporting packages?

I've got a Savage 4 and that's not even in the list. How is this "review" supposed to be useful to anyone?

Is this true? Animal instincts seem very interesting to me. Please correct me if my interests are mistaken.

What is this...desire?

This "digital currency" sounds fascinating - I wonder why Slashdot's never covered it before?!

I don't know if you're aware of this, but we're practically there already: Hayfever quackery

I was using the same workaround. Just installed the new flash .so, and no longer need to. THANK FUCK. I was definitely with Linus that whatever the specification of memcpy, if your optimisations break a ubiquitous piece of software it's a regression. But it's also a good thing that Adobe fixed their broken code, of course.

I also had issues where periodically Flash would bring my system to a crawl - I've not seen anyone else mention that problem, but fingers crossed this'll solve that too.