Re: [FOSS] How does one respond to this line of questioning?

2011-04-07 Thread Bruce Labitt
On 4/7/2011 9:57 PM, Thomas Charron wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Bruce Labitt > wrote: >> Had an interesting conversation this evening. A snipped >> version basically was: >> >> op: You like to use a lot of Open Source Software don't >> you? Don't you know it is not 'standard' here?

Re: [FOSS] How does one respond to this line of questioning?

2011-04-07 Thread Thomas Charron
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Bruce Labitt wrote: > Had an interesting conversation this evening.  A snipped > version basically was: > > op: You like to use a lot of Open Source Software don't > you?  Don't you know it is not 'standard' here? > > me: Hmm.  What part of free, efficient and fast

[FOSS] How does one respond to this line of questioning?

2011-04-07 Thread Bruce Labitt
Had an interesting conversation this evening. A snipped version basically was: op: You like to use a lot of Open Source Software don't you? Don't you know it is not 'standard' here? me: Hmm. What part of free, efficient and fast don't you care for? op: (no answer) How do list members res

Re: VoltDB?

2011-04-07 Thread Alan Johnson
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Marc Nozell (m...@nozell.com) < noz...@gmail.com> wrote: > Have you looked at the Drizzle fork of MySQL? It is being driven by a > number of ex-MySQL folks and focusing on cloud/web architectures and > scaling. > > http://drizzle.org/ > > -marc > Yeah, cool. Tha

Re: Doug McIlroy vs Chuck Norris

2011-04-07 Thread Ken D'Ambrosio
Along a similar vein -- though for cryptography, not *nix -- please enjoy everyone's favorite cryptographer, Bruce Schneier: http://www.schneierfacts.com/ On Thu, April 7, 2011 12:32 pm, Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: > For those of you who are unfortunate enough never to have met him, let > me just s

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Doug McIlroy vs Chuck Norris

2011-04-07 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
For those of you who are unfortunate enough never to have met him, let me just say that Doug is one of those giants whose shoulders we are always standing on. However, he is a quiet, humble giant, and if you never studied the history of Unix, or computer science in general you probably would not k

Re: VoltDB?

2011-04-07 Thread Marc Nozell (m...@nozell.com)
Have you looked at the Drizzle fork of MySQL? It is being driven by a number of ex-MySQL folks and focusing on cloud/web architectures and scaling. http://drizzle.org/ -marc On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Thomas Charron wrote: >  Anyone looked at this yet? > > http://voltdb.com/ > >  Just won

Re: VoltDB?

2011-04-07 Thread Alan Johnson
Dunno, but there was a recent FLOSS Weekly about it: http://twit.tv/floss149. I don't remember anything about it really so it must not have been too relevant to us. We run MySQL at $WORK too. Certainly worth a download if you have some drive time or something. ___ Alan Johnson a...@d