Posted on 09/17/2008 10:28:43 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee
We need to KNOW
that they will do
EVERY EVIL MANIPULATIVE, TRAITOROUS THING THEY CAN REMOTELY GET AWAY WITH
AND SOME THAT HAVEN’T BEEN THOUGHT OF BEFORE THIS ROUND.
If you're suggesting that they stick with the relational nonsense, then I'd question your sanity.
There is no known entity in all of computer science which is faster than a flat file structure, especially once it's been cached in RAM [and, better yet, cached at local ISP caching infrastructures throughout the nation].
Relational databases are death to efficiency.
“I don’t like the monthly thing.
I just contribute a year’s worth once a year.
This is an extraordinary expense, made necessary by the extraordinary Obama Organization and the dedication of the frenzied.
I’m in for extra funds...”
What ever is easier for you or makes you feel better.
The people, who really are the financial backbone of churches and other organizations, are the ones, who donate yearly, quarterly, monthly, bi weekly or weekly on a regular basis.
More to the point this sort of technical design discussion cannot be made in public lest you tip the bad guys off. A nice private note to JimRob, maybe. That's what FReepmail is for. IMHO, of course.
Never heard of any problems with Mac servers because Mac has had the least problems with hacking attacks. But then again, I am a Mac fan.
Quix and all.
The best defense is a good offense. See this thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084386/posts
go here.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freerepublic2/?v=1&t=search&ch=web&pub=groups&sec=group&slk=1
bump
I think so.
What I read into it is that the "freeping" of polls is almost always a waste of time and a distraction, often pulling us into "Have you stopped beating your wife" sites by --- who else?
Sophisticated trolls.
If Jim Rob needs the money he should post a donation thread as soon as he figures out what he needs.
There are different rules and regulations concerning forums that run paid for ads and forums based on donations. I am not familiar with all of that but know JimRob wants to keep this a donation only forum.
Too bad we don’t have some super rich donators to give us a boost. But, who knows, even the size of the donation could come under some regulations??
“There is no known entity in all of computer science which is faster than a flat file structure, especially once it’s been cached in RAM [and, better yet, cached at local ISP caching infrastructures throughout the nation].”
Depends on the volume, flat files kind of become a bear once the amount of information reaches a certain size.
If you, for example, want to look up all post that I have ever put up in a flat file system, have fun. people dont often consider how relation systems enhance lager sites.
If you setup a RDB correctly (indexed correctly, optomized) it will on large load systems smoke flat files. And given the complex querey uses that many on FR have the difference would only be more pronounced..
The overwhelming majority of those "until-recently-inactive" are sleepers... the subtle contents of their suddenly revived interest in FR is a red flag for me every time.
This looks like as good a place any any to update my tagline....
It's not impractical at all.
You turn the old servers into "read-only" mode, to serve as an archive of the old threads, you bring up your new flat file servers [with something similar to the original flat file Free Republic code - 25 or 50 posts per page], you LDAP your user accounts and passwords over to the new servers, and you go live.
It's entirely doable, and it's what this site is going to need to withstand the Nut Roots attacks it will be facing over the course of the next two months.
That, of course, plus mirroring - there must not be a single pipe serving as a single point of failure when the sh*t starts hitting the fan in the next few weeks.
I mean - good grief - these kooks just broke into two of Sarah Palin's private email accounts at Yahoo - bringing down a relational database, attached to a single pipe out of California, would be a day at the beach by comparison.
We have had a huge influx of new ‘freepers’ in the last few months. Some of their agenda’s are questionable. Perhaps a freeze should be put on NEW sign-ups until after the election.
That's just utter and complete nonsense.
RDBs max out at thousands of transactions per second.
Flat file structures, on gigabit ethernet, max out at MILLIONS of transactions per second.
Umm... Horse crap.
Anything much more complicated than an address book had better be implemented in a well-indexed, well-normalized RDBMS if you expect it to do anything particularly useful.
Do you think 99.99% of the business world uses relational databases because they're inefficient? I mean, really.
Besides, I don't think the Robinsons have a crack team of (flat file???) DB administrators sitting around ready to re-architect their entire system.
No need to further compromise Freeper security secrets...
But whatever is happenning at FR now is extremely annoying at best, very suspicious at worse. And it's not getting better.
No need to further compromise Freeper security secrets...
But whatever is happenning at FR now is extremely annoying at best, very suspicious at worst. And it's not getting better.
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