MySQL reporting question

2010-06-22 Thread der.hans
moin moin, t1: t1id, varchar1, stuff t2: t2id, timestamp, varchar1, varchar2, status I need to match the most recently entered status from t2 with stuff from t1 in MySQL. t2 is grouped by varchar2. t1 will have millions of rows. t2 has millions of rows and will grow at 4 or 5 times the rate

Re: MySQL reporting question

2010-06-22 Thread Bryan O'Neal
Without any other details it seems simple, just create indexes on any join or where column, setup a slave box for data warehousing purposes, run the simple SQL On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 11:09 PM, der.hans pl...@lufthans.com wrote: moin moin, t1: t1id, varchar1, stuff t2: t2id, timestamp,

Re: OT: HowTo Gpartd Windows Mirrored Drives to Expand Usable Space?

2010-06-22 Thread Stephen
how were they mirrored? firmware or software? On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.com wrote: Gee, Anyone know an easy tool or procedure to make a standard Laptop C and D drive no longer mirrored instead 2 usable drives? I heard a rumor that you can boot into

Re: OT: HowTo Gpartd Windows Mirrored Drives to Expand Usable Space?

2010-06-22 Thread Lisa Kachold
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: how were they mirrored? firmware or software? On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Lisa Kachold lisakach...@obnosis.com wrote: Gee, Anyone know an easy tool or procedure to make a standard Laptop C and D drive no longer

Breaking in to a Harddrive

2010-06-22 Thread James Finstrom
Greetings All, So my dad bought a Hitachi Travelstar 5K100 and apparently the drive is password locked at a hardware level and requires some sort of voodoo to report back anything other than vendor data. Anyway I guess there is a byte code you send to the drive and then a password then you live

Re: OT: HowTo Gpartd Windows Mirrored Drives to Expand Usable Space?

2010-06-22 Thread Stephen
ntfs software mirror should pretty much be broken once you pull it out of its host OS/environment. unless they did 2 partitions on one drive and then mirrored them. but in any of those cases the data should be 100% accessible mirror or no. On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Lisa Kachold

Re: Breaking in to a Harddrive

2010-06-22 Thread Stephen
get the Hitachi drive diagnostics and see if you can write 0's to the drive or contact Hitachi support or contact the seller of the drive thats about all i can think of, because firmware level passwords are pretty hard to circumvent. On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:51 AM, James Finstrom

MySQL reporting question

2010-06-22 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, der.hans wrote: I need to match the most recently entered status from t2 with stuff from t1 in MySQL. t1.stuff, t2.status == $some_val where max(t2.timestamp) and t1.varchar1 == t2.varchar1 and t2.varchar2 == t2.varchar2 I can also add columns to either table.

Re: Breaking in to a Harddrive

2010-06-22 Thread Bryan O'Neal
The last time this happened to me I just sent the drive back to the manufacturer under RMA and received a new drive in about a week. On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: get the Hitachi drive diagnostics and see if you can write 0's to the drive or contact

Re: MySQL reporting question

2010-06-22 Thread Bryan O'Neal
If your going to drop acid drop mysql and use Casandra. I hate Casandra because it makes no attempt at being acid complaint but it is the best of your high performance eventually/mostly consistent databases. Mind you I think anyone who thinks not using an ACID complaint database is a good idea

Re: OT: HowTo Gpartd Windows Mirrored Drives to Expand Usable Space?

2010-06-22 Thread Eric Shubert
Lisa Kachold wrote: Gee, Anyone know an easy tool or procedure to make a standard Laptop C and D drive no longer mirrored instead 2 usable drives? I heard a rumor that you can boot into say Knoppix and use gpartd? -- Office: (480)307-8707 ATT: (503)754-4452 That doesn't sound right. Are

Re: OT: HowTo Gpartd Windows Mirrored Drives to Expand Usable Space?

2010-06-22 Thread Stephen
I have built several including a few with 3 drives in raid 5. they do exist, just not common unless you get into some of the more desktop replacement systems. most mainstream Tier 1/2 vendors just use one to save space/cost/complexity On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:01 AM, Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net

Re: Breaking in to a Harddrive

2010-06-22 Thread Jim March
A warning: in my experience and that of others of late, Hitachi drives aren't that good. Worse than Samsung. Nowhere near as good as WD or Seagate. I wouldn't trust a Hitachi for anything really important. Jim --- PLUG-discuss mailing list -

Re: Breaking in to a Harddrive

2010-06-22 Thread Bryan O'Neal
Ah remember we used to call them the death star drive - because they would burn out hot and fast :) On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote: A warning: in my experience and that of others of late, Hitachi drives aren't that good.  Worse than Samsung.  Nowhere

Re: Breaking in to a Harddrive

2010-06-22 Thread Jim March
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Bryan O'Neal bryan.on...@theonealandassociates.com wrote: Ah remember we used to call them the death star drive - because they would burn out hot and fast :) We're at a point now where brand new WD drives of respectable but not cutting-edge size are so damn

Re: Breaking in to a Harddrive

2010-06-22 Thread Bryan O'Neal
Ah remember we used to call them the death star drive - because they would burn out hat and fast :) On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote: A warning: in my experience and that of others of late, Hitachi drives aren't that good.  Worse than Samsung.  Nowhere

Re: OT: HowTo Gpartd Windows Mirrored Drives to Expand Usable Space?

2010-06-22 Thread Eric Shubert
I should think that'd put a real strain on the battery. Unless of course they're SSDs. :) Stephen wrote: I have built several including a few with 3 drives in raid 5. they do exist, just not common unless you get into some of the more desktop replacement systems. most mainstream Tier 1/2

Re: OT: HowTo Gpartd Windows Mirrored Drives to Expand Usable Space?

2010-06-22 Thread Stephen
Desktop replacements aren't known for battery life.. unless you count the shortest possible... SLI graphics raided HDD and sometimes Desktop CPU's you get the idea. On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net wrote: I should think that'd put a real strain on the battery.

Re: OT: HowTo Gpartd Windows Mirrored Drives to Expand Usable Space?

2010-06-22 Thread Eric Shubert
More like 'portable' than 'laptop' then, I suppose. I refer to mine as a 'deskbook'. ;) Stephen wrote: Desktop replacements aren't known for battery life.. unless you count the shortest possible... SLI graphics raided HDD and sometimes Desktop CPU's you get the idea. On Tue, Jun 22, 2010

New Linux server at home

2010-06-22 Thread Stephen
just set up a new Linux server, just recently demoed my xenserver and moved it into a new case... dropped the optical and in all tons quieter but my main purpose in this email is what sort of services do people run at home and what do they do with them. -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your

Re: New Linux server at home

2010-06-22 Thread keith smith
I have an old Dell that is over 5 years old.  It was my wife's desktop until about 3 years ago.  I added some RAM and put Fedora on it and have been using it on a daily basis as a LAMP dev server. I have been thinking about a new box though, since it is over 5 years old and I use it for my

Re: New Linux server at home

2010-06-22 Thread Stephen
I have an old Socket 775 Server board i might trade/sell PDSMA+ or PDSMI i think. If your interested let me know. but mine has been in service for about 4 years now. I added some drives and changes its chassis to one that makes less noise but still the same guts inside (also gave it a good

Re: New Linux server at home

2010-06-22 Thread Technomage
normally, its just file (smb) and printer sharing. Those tend to be the biggies and a home user with more than one machine in the house might employ. the more advanced geeks among that group would use something more esoteric (like opendirectory or some other single sign on authentication and

Re: OT: HowTo Gpartd Windows Mirrored Drives to Expand Usable Space?

2010-06-22 Thread walter tocalini
Just go to windows control panel - administrative tools computer management -disk management and disble the mirror and your second drive will be clean for whatever you like to do---no data lost on the primary drive o whatever version of windows this machine have- your place to work

Re: New Linux server at home

2010-06-22 Thread Eric Shubert
Stephen wrote: just set up a new Linux server, just recently demoed my xenserver and moved it into a new case... dropped the optical and in all tons quieter but my main purpose in this email is what sort of services do people run at home and what do they do with them. I expect to see more

Re: New Linux server at home

2010-06-22 Thread Eric Cope
I run a FreeBSD box for OpenVPN, file server, and SVN server. its an old celeron with 512MB of ram. Eric On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 1:40 PM, keith smith klsmith2...@yahoo.com wrote: I have an old Dell that is over 5 years old. It was my wife's desktop until about 3 years ago. I added some RAM

Re: New Linux server at home

2010-06-22 Thread Stephen
downside to this one is the filtering Cox applies to email services. On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net wrote: Stephen wrote: just set up a new Linux server, just recently demoed my xenserver and moved it into a new case... dropped the optical and in all tons

OT: Google Voice available to everyone

2010-06-22 Thread Stephen P Rufle
http://www.google.com/googlevoice/about.html Was talking to der.hans about this last week. He mentioned that it might be a while before it was out of beta :). Well look at that its available to everyone now. I got a number that is 480 - XXX - JAVA.

Re: New Linux server at home

2010-06-22 Thread keith smith
Everything I've read says qmail is a heavy hitter. Keith Smith --- On Tue, 6/22/10, Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net wrote: From: Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net Subject: Re: New Linux server at home To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us Date: Tuesday, June 22, 2010,

Re: OT: Google Voice available to everyone

2010-06-22 Thread Stephen
HAHA cute. On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Stephen P Rufle stephen.p.ru...@cox.net wrote: http://www.google.com/googlevoice/about.html Was talking to der.hans about this last week. He mentioned that it might be a while before it was out of beta :). Well look at that its available to

Re: New Linux server at home

2010-06-22 Thread Stephen
well the server is a x3210 2.13 quad core xeon with 4gb ram and 4x160 sata2 hdd in raid 10 and 2x400 gb sata2 RE in a mirror. i think its got some spare resources. On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:07 PM, keith smith klsmith2...@yahoo.com wrote: Everything I've read says qmail is a heavy hitter.

Re: New Linux server at home

2010-06-22 Thread keith smith
How can you - you can configure your server to use cox for your outbound messages Do you connect to their SMTP server and look like a client? Keith Smith --- On Tue, 6/22/10, Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net wrote: From: Eric Shubert e...@shubes.net Subject: Re: New

Re: New Linux server at home

2010-06-22 Thread JD Austin
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 16:16, keith smith klsmith2...@yahoo.com wrote: How can you - you can configure your server to use cox for your outbound messages Do you connect to their SMTP server and look like a client? Keith Smith The setup varies depending on which

Re: New Linux server at home

2010-06-22 Thread keith smith
Not a resource hog.  I meant it can handle the load.  As I recall, I read that qmail is rather efficient. Keith Smith --- On Tue, 6/22/10, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: From: Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com Subject: Re: New Linux server at home To: Main PLUG

Re: New Linux server at home

2010-06-22 Thread keith smith
That would come in handy.  I have a LAMP server on a private IP that I use for software dev.  I can test almost everything except the parts that send mail out.  When I get to that point I move the code to a test server. I've tried to configure a mail server in the past and have found it

Re: OT: Google Voice available to everyone

2010-06-22 Thread Bryan O'Neal
I got 916-XX-GAMES :) On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: HAHA cute. On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Stephen P Rufle stephen.p.ru...@cox.net wrote: http://www.google.com/googlevoice/about.html Was talking to der.hans about this last week. He mentioned that

Re: New Linux server at home

2010-06-22 Thread Bryan O'Neal
I have an old Dell Precision 380 used for File Sever: SMB internal WebDAVS external LAMP Server: HTTP internal HTTPS external - dotProject, etc. XTupple Server: PostBooks for Accounting SSH Server: Mostly for tunneling, but never really have need since my files and applications are available via

Re: Breaking in to a Harddrive

2010-06-22 Thread Alan Dayley
If the hardware manufacturer implemented the ATA spec correctly, the password cannot be bypassed by any normal means. That is, after all, what the password is supposed to do. With special knowledge of the specific hard drive model, not just the manufacturer, the model and even the specific

Re: MySQL reporting question

2010-06-22 Thread Joseph Sinclair
As I understand your structure and requirements (it's a bit fuzzy, especially the t2.varchar2 == t2.varchar2) Create two *materialized* views and refresh both views (1 then 2) every reporting period (daily?). View1 : select status, varchar1, varchar2, max(timestamp) from t2 where varchar1 !=