Re: [cobalt-users] anonymous ftp on raq 4I

[Paul Jacobs <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:12 PM 1/28/2002, you wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 08:24:08 -0800
> > From: Paul Jacobs <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > Yea, but windows does not crap out after 50 I.P.'s... I have a
> > box running 200 I.P.'s on a 3C908-TX from 3com just fine.
>
> *yawn*
>
> The big question is what you did to break all your boxen.  Did
> you log every packet or something?  Unless you were running a
> buggy kernel, I'm trying to think how one could slow down a box
> to what you describe.
>
> > The database on the RAQ4 is more like SQL, if it were more like
>
> SQL is heavily influenced by a standard.  Scary stuff. ;-)
>
> > access ( a jet database format) I could figure it out :)
>
> As for Access... nice for the desktop[*], but I dare you to run a
> production website using it.  Talk about crapping out. :-P

Not really, check out www.flowersforyou.com  a site run fully on  an access 
DB with cold fusion as the front end on a PII-350 with 512 meg memory... 
you just got to know how to optimize windows to get it to work :))



> [*] I use it as a front-end to enter info into my Unix DBs via
>     the MyODBC driver.  I can crank out documents in Word faster
>     than most secretaries.  I use MS desktop software, but I
>     don't try driving a family sedan in a Formula 1 race.
>
> > The cobalt boxes have so many scripts and such a specialized
> > kernel, yes I would say proprietary.
>
> Proprietary or not, one must know what one is doing.

That is not was SUN says about the cobalt boxes.... Gee could there 
marketing people be getting worse than microsoft's?, or do they just flat 
out LIE....Noway sun LIE to sell product... it's un-heard off .


> > So I have to learn postgress?, the apache post to windows was
>
> Something wrong with that?  MVCC is yummy.  Scales better than
> locking.
>
> > and is a disaster.
>
> Yup.  I'm surprised that they even bothered porting, instead of
> just saying "use CygWin!"  Note that they admit that it's a
> disaster, and more of a proof-of-concept than production system.
>
> Okay, that's enough troll-feeding for me for now.  Time to get
> back to cutting code.
>
>
> Eddy
>
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