Jason L. Froebe: Ramblings of a Geek

For all you knitters out there…  Ran across this on Digg.com:

Color Inspiration: Knit Socks of All Sorts

Knitters truly are color lovers. These aren’t your average socks… these wonderfully colorful knit socks show a wide variety of the endless possibilities for crafty knitters.

Submitted:

21 hours 58 min ago, made popular 1 hour 12 minutes ago

Submitter:

nendoke   (news: submissions, diggs, comments)

Topic:

News » Technology » Design

Source:

www.colourlovers.com

Ever have your post to the Sybase newsgroups removed?  Ever wonder why?  Sybase has just posted their rules:

Moderation Guidelines - Using Sybase Newsgroups

TeamSybase provides moderation services to all Sybase newsgroups, and will enforce good usage rules for the forums.    Please do not post content that is inappropriate for the forums topic or offensive to others.

Offensive postings will be removed in the following cases:

1. When a the content of the posting is not relevant to the newsgroup within which it is posted. Advertisements, Help Wanted Ads, etc should be posted in the news.classifieds newsgroups.
2. When the posting contains profanity, obscenities, racist remarks or is abusive of another forum member in any manner.
3. When the posting is of a personal nature or contains personal information about a forum member.
4. When the posting contains an attachment that contains a virus or is otherwise incomplete.
5. When the posting has been added to every newsgroup for no apparent reason.

Postings will NOT remove postings in the following cases:

1. When the posting contains constructive criticism of one of our products. This criticism may generate a conversation that could prove to be useful in shaping our products in the future.
2. When the message has been cross posted to multiple newsgroups but the contents make it relevant for those newsgroups.

ASE’s data cache in v12.5.0.3 and higher & writing to a filesystem for tempdb (without directio or dsync) will always outperform ASE data cache & tmpfs on LINUX because of the way that tmpfs was implemented within Linux.

Now, if you’re talking about a Linux RAM DISK which is completely and utterly different than tmpfs, as the ram disk is generally only used on Live CD distributions and some bootups….   ram disk is very very slow compared to tmpfs.  Don’t use it.

The RAM Drive, a physical ‘drive’ that contains memory instead of disk platters…  very expensive but doesn’t improve performance over ASE 12.5.0.3 & filesystem much at all.  Use only if some pointy haired boss has extra $$ in his/her budget that they need to use.  Not worth the $$$.

On Solaris and AIX performance is pretty close to the same, so it is better to use a normal filesystem & ASE 12.5.0.3+ as the ram disk would just be wasted space.  Can’t say on HPUX as I don’t have access to such a box.

4:30 am here… I’m going back to bed.