Posts by optic

It's official. Microsoft pushes Google over the Edge, shifts browser to Chromium engine

Re: WebAssembly & Blazer

My experience with blazor was edge and Firefox was more performant with web assembly than chrome. Chrome isn't always better just because.

Dell opens Oracle exit route for SAP data shops

Re: PostgreSQL noted as vial alternative for Oracle

Have you used postgres?

1. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/largeobjects.html

2. Admitedly not as nice but very flexible. I set up dynamic partitioning fairly easily. http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/ddl-partitioning.html

3. http://www.enterprisedb.com/nosql-for-enterprise

4. OK no packages. Fair enough but there are other things you can do like plpython etc.

5. No multi master yet but almost anything else

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.4/static/high-availability.html

6. It's all good but I havnt played here to much so I can't comment.

7. Pwta bytes not enough? Amy database that big will need tuning.

http://postgresql.nabble.com/How-large-can-a-PostgreSQL-database-get-td5752401.html

http://glinden.blogspot.com.au/2008/05/yahoo-builds-two-petabyte-postgresql.html?m=1

SAP unveils its biggest thing for 20 YEARS: Core suite with HANA

Hana is good fun and a damn site quicker than our standard Oracle setups. But when do i get my recursive CTE statements or connect by prior equivalents. This is really hurting me. Or am i going to have to write a function . . . if so then why can this not be included as standard.

Also, half the time their CE functions is slower than raw SQL for complex things. *shrugs* Still nice and quick usually.

Spooks, cops, say Oz metadata push is for consistency, not data grab

Don't isp's get ip's in blocks from the register? Could they not just use that to find if an IP belongs to an isp's customer? Makes no sense.

Your Flying Car? Delayed again, but you WILL get it, says Terrafugia

Re: Hybrid vs bigger engine

You do realise that many (most?) diesel rail locomotives are diesel electrics, ie. Big diesel generator and electric motors.

Its a very efficient design as you can design a motor to operate at a specific output very efficiently. For cars store the excess power (in a few smaller batteries) while cruising for when lots of power is needed and charge them at other times. Current hybrids are a joke though, your right there, putting an electric motor on the other side of a drive train, talk about needless losses!

NBN collapses^* into chaos^*

Brownfields == existing suburbs

Greenfields == new suburbs / estates

They probably wont meet their schedules however I don't have a huge problem with that, the delays will likely add a few years to the rollout and towards the end most people will have access anyhow. Besides as stated in the article, its a decade long rolout anyhow, a few months, even a year, who cares, its a worth while endeavour (but that is a long debated fact as well ^_^).