I recently read a heated debate on the age-old argument: should I use RAID 5 or RAID 10 for my database? I noted a particularly relevant treatment of the topic (read it here), and figured like any good DBA I'd chime in with my thoughts.

The basic premise for the argument (which was, oddly, from a business guru...NOT a tech geek) was that given a required performance level and budget, what setup would provide better data safety?

"Any DBA would ask you to give them...

I'm writing this because when I read over my previous rant, it struck me as too harsh and reactionary. I won't take it down, because I believe it illustrates a valid point, but I need to add clarification.

This subject interests me because I've always believed that it's better to learn why the formula works than to just memorise the formula. Back a couple of years when I was in high school, I worked much harder at sciences than mathematics. Consequently, I got to the point...

Happy New Year, my dear friends, LQ community!

Wish you have many roots, virtual and real as well)
And don't forget to run as root yourself! ;)
Then you will see no "permission denied" anymore, you will discover this world is free and there is nothing impossible!
Believe me, it is!
su FTW! :)
Have a great party and have a nice time in 2010!

Go, hackers, go!!!

I have made available my first source code distribution of Lusus,
available at http://indicium.us/cgi-bin/pages/get?view=lusus.

I'm hoping to get more work done on Lusus during the last two weeks of
the Winter Break, but I wanted to have an official release available as
early as possible since I know most people do not want to deal with the
inconvenience of installing Git and autotools. I spent a lot of time
trying to properly set up my configure...

Java applet programming is actually turning out to be a pretty good experience so far. I've already figured out the (very) basics of how to paint objects on the screen and how to handle mouse click events, and that pretty much covers the essence of all the future interface programming I am going to do for this work project. Except, I still need to figure out how to make GET/POST requests... If I find out that you can't do that in Java Applets I'm probably going to shoot myself.
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