It was RED. Really RED. That’s my mother like to say: “the sky turn red, the water hit bed” – meaning when the sky turning really red in the evening, the night will be raining dogs and cats.
This was what I cough 2 days ago from my kitchen. And yes, it was raining quite heavily that night. Any explanation?
While digging my way to fine tune PostgreSQL database system, this is a very bold note made by someone speaking from his experience.
The statement was dated, but I am quite surprised that Oracle was being superseded at that time instead of starting from PostgreSQL 8.0.
I have been through many database applications. The DOS dBase, the FileMaker Pro, the bizarre 4th Dimension.
I wasn’t really using any RDBMS for the kind of tiny projects that I build. It was the old plain files system that serve me as my faithful “database”, and get things done every time.
Until the day I need RDMS, I asked a web guru: “what is the best SQL to use?”
This was how I ended with PostgreSQL.
I didn’t been through MySQL, although it has nothing wrong. Don’t ask me why, the guru said Postgres, so I Postgres!
Here goes:
Jean-Paul Argudo
I have been a DBA in a french Open Source company called IDEALX, since January 2001. I’m a PostgreSQL fan of many years now, but as I needed to feed my family, I had to work with Oracle. Now I can merge both my passion and work, so I work on PostgreSQL as much as I can, recommending it to our customers.I only install Oracle under Linux when very special features of Oracle are needed by the customer. Sincerely, 90% of our customers work with PostgreSQL. The 10% remaining are only customers which have Oracle for political/economic/whatever reasons, never for technical reasons.
So in fact, very very few people need the advanced features of Oracle in real life. Very few of our customers needed OPS for example…
Full text here:
http://techdocs.postgresql.org/techdocs/pgsqldbtuning.php
Not sure source from where, text in email follows:
WATER BRIDGE .. OVER A RIVER!!!
Even after you see it, it is still hard to believe !
Water Bridge in Germany…. What a feat!
Six years, 500 million euros, 918 meters long…….now this is engineering!
This is a channel-bridge over the River Elbe and joins the former East and West Germany, as part of the unification project. It is located in the city of Magdeburg, near Berlin. The photo was taken on the day of inauguration.
To those who appreciate engineering projects…..
It is however, true.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_water_bridge.htm
http://www.snopes.com/photos/architecture/waterbridge.asp#photo
I still hate email that is formatted in RTF (Rich Text Format). It is a waste of bandwidth and storage, even processor to handle email that is in HTML.
It is so unfortunate that we have to deal with it just because someone behind some mail clients decided to let user compose email in HTML.
If you know how to turn off the HTML option, please do it.
If you don’t care about it, also don’t complain about it if the junk mail handling snip off your email.
If all you need is just trying to get few words across to the other end, why bother to make it bold and color it in red?
I am over 30s now, and having difficulty to read from very dark background with bright text. Or very light text (grey) in white background. I know there is an artist in everyone innersole, unfortunately even the well-trained artist can flip and does weird things.
So keep things simple. Relay your idea, not your “format”.
You can easily find pirate software around here for about RM 5 (USD 1.3) each CD. It is rather easy to Bittorrent it to if you look hard enough.
So in this country, all applications are near to FOC. Not because it is open source. It is pirate source.
Getting original license isn’t cheap. Or a least not for the students or the hobbyists.
So if one want to start exploring new software and tools, the pirate source is a good way to go.
I think it is rather a good incubation environment. For software company that allow pirate of their software circulating around the market – it is free advertisement, good strategy to acquire user base and develop some critical mass.
Only the tiny developers can’t let their software circulate as pirate source. Not because they don’t interested in the free advertisement, they just can’t afford to wait 3 to 5 years to get to the critical mass, and at the same time continue to enhance their software.
So you don’t see many open source contributors from Malaysia – even less from the professional fields.
And this is why open source here is not gaining weight too. People can get pirate source for free, and there is a lot of MSCE to support it, why should they get something which is hard to maintain, and only known by a few geeks?
My father likes to DIY on almost everything. Here is some new inventions that he has put up with since Chinese New year (click the picture for high res).
Kitchen Cabinet – Material from half-cut of the stand-up kitchen cabinet (the traditional one).
Wall mounted cabinet – Material from top of the stand-up kitchen cabinet. The cutting still rough.
Nice washing set – Made from recycle woods. Nicely placed ontop of a wash basin. Just one problem: can easily hit with my head when I duck down at the basin to bush teeth. Need improvements here.
Toilet roll holder – Creative? Just a wire bend together. Can I copyright this? Maybe I’ll just OEM it.
Cloth hanger – Simple enough?
Knifes cluster – Can you count the knifes there? Yes, my father is a good cook too.
The raw kitchen – It is over 10 years now, the kitchen is a place that I consider still "work in progress". All the cement walls, the bathroom, the toilet, the drainage system and the foundation was hand made. All by my father alone. Well, I’ve helped to dig the septic pool underneath, and hand made a few hundreds cement bricks, which is all underneath now.
It is probably cheaper to get something out of the furniture shop for the above, but I think he has fun doing it – I like that toilet roll holder.
I’ve been back to my hometown last weekend. Been to the primary school for a while and taken a stitch-able photo. It is not in perfect stitching situation, but I’ve run out of battery.
My family moved away from our hometown while I was 5 years old due to “Communism” issues surrounding my father. So I didn’t go to that school.
Got this link from a friend.
http://www.skorcareer.com/malaysia-eng/30_top_companies.htm
I know quite a few persons that being employed by these companies, and quit too.
Most of it aren’t local. So our moon here not so round?
Anyway, if you are prepared to climb the corporate ladder, it might be a good reference.
I personally dislike to deal with the big corporation. They smell like fish.
