Posts by swansonc

NHS grows a NoSQL backbone and rips out its Oracle Spine

Re: Top marks

Actually, you get replication/distributed environments with NoSQL (that's why so many folks are moving that way). I don't need to roll it, its already there. In the case of Riak, they use vector clocks to reach eventual consistency.

Re: Top marks

Multi-master SQL databases to 200+ sites with full ACID, really? Master-slave, I get, master-master for all sites, I really am having a hard time believing.

Furthermore, RDBMS administration isn't onerous, but it's not easy either (and it's certainly a specific skill-set). A lot of NoSQL databases are much easier to administer, and can be administered by standard SA's, not DB SA's. You can get a multinode, fully HA Riak cluster up in literally 3 minutes and start transacting against it. Dynamically adding and removing nodes in that cluster also can happen on the fly. I'd like to see any classical RDBMS do that.

Hold the front page: Spain's anti-Google lobbyists lobby for Google News return

Re: Translation:

So, is your proposal that a company should be FORCED to stay in business (or offer a product) in a country where the regulatory environment makes it unfeasible, or is specifically structured to make it impossible to function? The last time I checked, there is no contract between Spain, or the Spanish people and Google compelling Google to offer Google News to them.

They (or their leaders/lobbyists/vested interests) pass a law that makes it difficult or impossible for Google News to operate, and you get upset when the shutter it? It looks like the law did exactly what it was designed to do.

If you don't want for something to happen, don't ask for it.

Re: Weird

It's not a subnet, it's a CIDR prefix (for both v4 and v6). You have no idea if it is a subnet, part of a subnet, or multiple subnets. It's just a prefix. IPv6 is done the same way...

2001:db8:1001::/48, for example.

Nimble gives Mann severe kicking while he's down

Re: Translation

Well, anonymous, I don't know what hell-hole you came out of, but, of all the start-up disfunction I've had to suffer through (or watch friends/associates suffer through), ego stroking the CEO wasn't one of them. Startup != small, single-proprietor business (just FYI).

Snakes on a backplane: Server-room cabling horrors

Re: Days gone by...

I believe you meant 10Base-2, rather than cat-5...

BOFH: It's DANGEROUS to go alone. Take THIS

Re: Magic Smoke

Many years ago, I found a hard drive that had too much magic blue smoke. The thing wouldn't spin up. Then, poof, magic blue smoke was let out and the drive started up.

Filter cap shorted to ground. When it went, the short resolved.

US House Republicans: 'End net neutrality or no debt ceiling deal' – report

Re: The Republican Dream@ecofeco

"more like" - actually I think they ARE the Democrats at the time of the Civil War. Actually, they were more rational back then...