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Linux. It is absolutely stupid to have a GUI for a storage box. Solaris with ZFS actually makes a kickass storage server as well.

Seems like your db design might be a little inefficient. How exactly is everything laid out? From what I can make of it the query should only be on the movies column and the other columns in the table should not matter. Now that I see how the suggest feature works I am not so sure I like...

SELECT alias, description, token FROM ts_debug('foo-bar-beta1'); alias | description | token -----------------+------------------------------------------+--------------- numhword | Hyphenated word, letters and digits | foo-bar-beta1...

Hi, thanks for the response. I found that i can do what I want to do with regex queries and it works OK, so I think I am going to stay with those unless I see a huge performance problem. I have been asking around on the postgres IRC channel and no one seems to know a whole lot about full text...

I looked at netbooks for a long time, but at the current moment they can't do what I need them to do. I watch a LOT of flash video and the atoms just don't seem to be up to the task. Hopefully that GPU accelerated flash actually pans out... In a similar note, I just got a refurbished dell...

A lot of web frameworks can do this too as files and directories simply map to functions or classes in a programming language.

I have a postgres database that has a few tables with columns of type TEXT. These columns store unstructured text. I want to be able to search the text columns for specific things and also be able to do full text searches. After reading the documentation on the postgres website I can...

Offering a game programming degree is an easy way for a college to get students to come and pay 30-40k per year. If the program is taught well though it can be beneficial. Knowing about 3D graphics has more implications than just games. Think scientific modeling, military and industrial...

Bingo. I think OSX is really kicking Windows butt in both of these regards. Apple has really focused on both of those areas with Snow Leopard while Windows 7 is all about atoning for Vistas mistakes.

I ended up getting a dell inspiron 14z refurbished for 475. 2.0 Core 2 Duo 2GB DDR3 9400M 8 Cell Battery Its a pretty good deal (you have to use a 20% off coupon). http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?t=1595779

I am assuming as others have said that Microsoft is branching out to support future architectures. It would very unlikely that we would see an x86 style architecture extended to 128 bits such as it was extended with x86-64. Again, the addressable memory space is just a consequence of the size...

The bit length of a CPU architecture doesn't just affect the maximum size of the addressable memory space.

Ok so here is some text from the nvidia website. It does not specifically say that the ION can only be paired with an atom. "NVIDIA® ION™ graphics processors turn up the visuals on compact, low-power PCs with performance up to 10X faster than similar systems. When combined with a...

It seems like the ION is getting some positive reviews. It seems as though it beats the inte; 4500HD in most benchmarks. I have not seen an ION advertised on anything other than an atom CPU. It would sure be nice to see the ION paired with those new core 2 duo or core duo ULV chips that...

Good call. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5210428&Sku=G180-15440 I have always used newegg but it seems tigerdirect has some pretty sweet deals on laptops as well. Im thinking about waiting until after Windows 7 comes out though as it seems...