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Comment Re:Does Postgres do online backup? (Score 1) 372

by eggyknap on Friday July 12, 2013 @10:56PM (#44267341) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Is Postgres On Par With Oracle?

VMWare has invested quite a bit of work into PostgreSQL, and employs a few big names in the community. That said, I know nothing about it myself, and can't answer your question regarding it :)

Comment Re:Feature differences (Score 2) 372

by eggyknap on Friday July 12, 2013 @10:54PM (#44267333) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Is Postgres On Par With Oracle?

Everyone should love transactional DDL.

Comment Re:Feature differences (Score 1) 372

by eggyknap on Friday July 12, 2013 @10:54PM (#44267331) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Is Postgres On Par With Oracle?

I'm willing to be corrected here, but I understand CONNECT BY was Oracle's way of making recursive queries before the SQL standard invented them. Oracle and PostgreSQL (and presumably others) support standard recursion now. Postgres also has default function parameters, and extensions which sorta kinda but not really approximate Oracle's packages.

Submission + - Bradley Manning Charged With Aiding The Enemy

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Hugh Pickens writes

on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @11:17PM

Hugh Pickens writes writes: "The Washington Post reports that the army has brought twenty-two new charges — including the Article 104 offence of "aiding the enemy" that carries a potential death sentence — against Pfc. Bradley E. Manning, a former intelligence analyst accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified military and diplomatic documents to the anti-secrecy Web site WikiLeaks. The new charges, filed under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, include wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the Internet, knowing that it will be accessed by the enemy, that US officials have asserted could put soldiers and civilians at risk. However the prosecution has notified Manning's attorneys that it will not recommend the death penalty and the charge sheet, like the original set of accusations, contains no mention by name of the enemy to which the US military is referring. Manning's supporters reacted to the new charges with dismay. "I'm shocked that the military opted to charge Pfc. Bradley Manning today with the capital offense of 'aiding the enemy,' " says Jeff Paterson, project director of Courage to Resist, which has raised money for Manning's defense. "It's beyond ironic that leaked US State Department cables have contributed to revolution and revolt" in the Middle East, "yet an American may be executed, or at best face life in prison, for being the primary whistleblower.""

Submission + - Beijing to track citizen's cell phones (www.gov.cn)

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wan9xu

on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @07:50PM

wan9xu writes: "This is a real Orwellian development. Purportedly to help alleviate Beijing's traffic congestion, the new initiative, literally translated as "Platform for Citizen Movement Information" proposes to track individual citizen's movement in real time via cell phone signals. Cell phones will be automatically registered at cell towers as soon as they are switched on. The rest is just like the phone tracking you see every week on CSI."

Submission + - 13 Countries to Hit USTR's 'Priority Watch List' (internetevolution.com)

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hapworth

on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @06:09PM

hapworth writes: "The International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) has submitted a report on the top 40 countries guilty of piracy to The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), which is preparing for its annual “Special 301” report. This report describes the adequacy and effectiveness of US trading partners’ protection of intellectual property rights. Among the 40 countries suggested by the IIPA for the watch list, 13 were recommended for placement on the USTR's "Priority Watch List." These countries include Argentina, Canada, Chile, China, India, Indonesia, Russia, Costa Rica, the Philippines, Spain, Ukraine, and Vietnam. While previous reports have focused on physical piracy, this year's emphasizes cracking down on online piracy."

Submission + - Making Data Centers More People-Friendly (datacenterknowledge.com)

Submitted by 1sockchuck on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @05:43PM

1sockchuck writes: Data centers are designed to house servers, not people. This has often meant trade-offs for data center staffers, who brave 100-degree hot aisles and perform their work at laptop carts. But some data center developers are rethinking this approach and designing people-friendly data centers with Class-A offices and amenities for staff and visitors. Is this the future of data center design?

Submission + - Should Cyber Vigilantes Be Cheered or Feared (infoworld.com)

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snydeq

on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @04:07PM

snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Ted Samson raises several challenging questions in the wake of HBGary, first and foremost being, should the cyber vigilante acts of 'hacktivists' such as Anonymous be embraced? No doubt the alleged HBGary plot is troubling, Samson writes, 'but also troubling is how quickly some members of Congress seek to use illegally acquired information to further their own political agenda.' The underlying message seems to be that cyber vigilantes may have more leeway than those who engage in equally illegal, though decidedly nontechnical methods to expose their targets."

Submission + - Asus Motherboard Box Doubles as PC Case (itworld.com) 1

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itwbennett

on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @03:37PM

itwbennett writes: "Taiwan's Asus has a novel idea to cut down on shipping waste: What if the shipping container became the PC case? That's the idea behind a box the company will begin using to ship one of its Mini ATX motherboards. It holds the motherboard snug for shipping and is constructed so additional components required to make a PC can be added, said Debby Lee, a spokeswoman for the Taipei-based company. An example of the box is showing at this week's Cebit trade show in Hanover, Germany."

Submission + - SCO found no source code in 2004 (groklaw.net)

Submitted by doperative on Wednesday March 02, 2011 @06:50AM

doperative writes: A consultant hired by SCO in 2004 to compare UNIX and Linux, with the thought he could be used as an expert at trial, says that, after days and days, his comparison tool found "very little correlation". When he told that to SCO, it paid him and he never heard from SCO again.

Submission + - Microsoft Agrees ActiveX Content Should Be Blocked (msdn.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 28, 2011 @09:20PM

An anonymous reader writes: A post on the IE blog details the new ActiveX filtering feature in the IE9 release candidate. Microsoft's Herman Ng writes, 'ActiveX Filtering in the IE9 Release Candidate gives you greater control over how Web pages run on your PC. With ActiveX Filtering, you can turn off ActiveX controls for all Web sites and then turn them back on selectively as you see fit. While ActiveX controls like Adobe Flash are important for Web experiences today for videos and more, some consumers may want to limit how they run for security, performance, or other reasons.' My favourite quote from the article is one of the image captions: 'ActiveX content may prevent you from having a good experience viewing a Web site'

Submission + - Infected Androids Run Up Big Texting Bills

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Hugh Pickens writes

on Monday February 28, 2011 @08:20PM

Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Computerworld reports that a rogue Android app is hijacking smartphones and running up big texting bills to premium rate numbers before the owner knows it. Chinese hackers grabbed a copy of Steamy Windows, a free program, added a backdoor Trojan horse to the app's code, then placed the reworked app on unsanctioned third-party "app stores" where unsuspecting or careless Android smartphones find it, download it and install it. "This one stands out," says Vikram Thakur, a principle security response manager at Symantec. "It's pretty comprehensive in what it's doing." The app also has a built-in filter that blocks incoming texts from the user's carrier, a trick it uses to keep victims in the dark about the invisible texting. "It monitors inbound SMS texts, and blocks alerts telling you that you've already exceeded your quota," says Thakur adding that smartphone owners won't be aware of the charges they've racked up texting premium services until they receive their next statement. "If you're hell-bent on using [unauthorized app stores], look at the permissions the app requests when it installs. A [rogue] app will request more permissions than the legitimate version.""

Submission + - Intel completes McAfee acquisition (idg.com.au) 2

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angry tapir

on Monday February 28, 2011 @07:45PM

angry tapir writes: "Intel has completed its US$7.68 billion acquisition of security vendor McAfee, the chip maker has announced. The all-cash deal makes Intel a security industry powerhouse, giving it a broad range of consumer and enterprise security products. Intel had been working to get the deal approved by U.S. and European Union regulators since it was announced last August. The European Commission, in particular, had expressed concerns that Intel would give McAfee special treatment when it came to its processors and chipsets, locking other security vendors out of the technology."

Submission + - PlayStation 3 Banned In Europe Temporarily (tekgoblin.com)

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tekgoblin

on Monday February 28, 2011 @07:30PM

tekgoblin writes: "Looks like Sony is in some trouble at least in Europe. LG had recently sued Sony with a Patent dispute over their blu-ray technology and have been granted a preliminary injunction in the matter. This injunction prevents the PlayStation 3 from currently being imported to Europe. For at least the next 10 days, every PlayStation that is imported will be seized by Government officials."

Comment Re:Cut out the middleman (Score 1) 75

by eggyknap on Wednesday February 09, 2011 @09:52PM (#35157684) Attached to: Book Review: PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance

There's more to a database than simply speed. There's transactions, rich data types, index types that support those rich data types (you can only us a b-tree when your data types come from a metric space, hence, for instance, PostgreSQL's GIN and GiST index types), a standardized (if somewhat arcane and problematic) query language...

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