Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation -> PHP

2002-05-01 Thread amit soni
> Leo> transactions. Though, I do hear that MySQL has been deployed > Leo> at a few centres with prominent names. Essentials like > Leo> transaction support, stored procedures and the like were not > Leo> there in earlier versions and while some things are changing > Leo> in th

[ilugd]: ipchains- how to use it to secure a web server

2002-05-01 Thread Lokesh Bhog
Dear All, Has anyone used ipchains on there servers. Can you please suggest a script using ipchains that can be used to increase security of my Linux server. I have understood the syntax but I do not understand how to apply it to secure various services on my server. Also please refer some web

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation

2002-05-01 Thread Leo Fernandez
At 08:11 AM 5/1/2002, you wrote: >MySQL is great, for example, for the typical web-hosting provider who >usually needs a small RDBMS which would accomodate a few hundred >databases with a few thousand records each. I can see that it is indeed very popular amongst such providers. And I also agre

Re: [ilugd]: Restoring Superblocks

2002-05-01 Thread Leo Fernandez
To continue the tale of trying to recover ext2 file system: I have not yet come to the point of trying mke2fs with -S option. But I discovered something called R-Linux a free recovery prog available at www.r-tt.com It is part of a commercial product called R-Studio. These are both windows p

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation -> PostGRE

2002-05-01 Thread amit soni
> I would say that if one is looking for complexity and scalability of RDBMS > in the open source world, Postgres is a good choice. Though I am not too > confortable with the pace of it's development. ~ Exactly ! I am sure when enough experiments are

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation

2002-05-01 Thread Lokesh Bhog
I feel that mysql is a very good database. If it is free and so good why compare with something that costs money. With small size of data its performance is great. One thing that i wonder is if I have the same amount of data say 2GB would there be significant difference in performance in mysql or

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation

2002-05-01 Thread Kapil Sethi
> I feel that mysql is a very good database. If it is > free and so good why compare with something that costs > money. With small size of data its performance is > great. > One thing that i wonder is if I have the same amount > of data say 2GB would there be significant difference > in performanc

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation

2002-05-01 Thread Lokesh Bhog
What could be the reason for oracle doing better that mysql with the same load and same hardware? Did you change the logic of your program and changed the specification in oracle? Or is it that the logic used by oracle to manage data is better than mysql? BTW what is the cost of oracle on Linux

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation

2002-05-01 Thread Lokesh Bhog
What could be the reason for oracle doing better that mysql with the same load and same hardware? Did you change the logic of your program and changed the specification in oracle? Or is it that the logic used by oracle to manage data is better than mysql? BTW what is the cost of oracle on Linux

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation

2002-05-01 Thread Kapil Sethi
> What could be the reason for oracle doing better that > mysql with the same load and same hardware? > Or is it that the logic used by oracle to manage data > is better than mysql? I think Oracle has a better memory management, data management, and caching system than mysql. > Did you change t

Re: [ilugd]: help needed on PDA usage

2002-05-01 Thread Ambar Roy
> this letter is for a friend of mine. he is a > pharmaceutical distributer > he is havingaroun 12 boys collecting the orders from > around 200 chemists.now they are collecting the orders > manually and feed to the boilling computer since its > done manually its taking a lot of time. he wants to >

Re: [ilugd]: ipchains- how to use it to secure a web server

2002-05-01 Thread Ambar Roy
> Has anyone used ipchains on there servers. > > Can you please suggest a script using ipchains that > can be used to increase security of my Linux server. > I have understood the syntax but I do not understand > how to apply it to secure various services on my > server. > > Also please refer some

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation

2002-05-01 Thread amit soni
> which is used to store User details. If 10 user register on the site > simultaneously the mysql server almost freezes. [I mean to say that the > mouse barely moves on that machine] and when I am testing the same with > oracle I does that happily. may its your mouse or mouse pad. ;o) MySQL uses

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation

2002-05-01 Thread Sanjeev \"Ghane\" Gupta
From: "amit soni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 4:31 PM Subject: Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation > MySQL uses the simplest and most straight forward thread controls. It has to > be faster ! Oracle should be slower!! > Oracle has probally 2000 extra thin

[ilugd]: [Fwd: Modem Problem]

2002-05-01 Thread Nishikant Kapoor
"Vishwa.Ranjan"[[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > Friends > I have got a winmodem that is working fine under Windows98 SE but my linux hardware >detecting tool is unable to detect it. What could be the possibe reasons. I am really >missing surfing net in my favourite enviroment. If you do have some

Re: [ilugd]: modem causing problem ?

2002-05-01 Thread Arindam Bhattacharjee
Perhaps we can help you if you can provide more details about the modem and error. On Wednesday 01 May 2002 11:49, you wrote: AB > hi all, AB > i m trying to connect to the Internet and the modem is dialed properly by AB > kppp, but gives an error with status 16 or 19. AB > i m using RedHat 7.2

Re: [ilugd]: help needed on PDA usage

2002-05-01 Thread Rajiv Khandelwal
A Good Solution to this can be our own indegnious Simputer. It is cost-effective and at the same time it can be shared in a group using smart-cards. And best of all, its running Linux. www.simputer.org regards Rajiv "Ambar Roy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wrote--- > this letter is for a friend

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation

2002-05-01 Thread Lokesh Bhog
> The Mysql System with apache has 256 MB RAM and The > Oracle machine is 128 > MB, both on a PIII 500 MHz, 20 GB EIDE HDD. The same > database the same table > structure, approx 2 lakh records in one table ( a > user registration table) > which is used to store User details. If 10 user > register

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation

2002-05-01 Thread Ambar Roy
> > MySQL uses the simplest and most straight forward thread controls. It has > to > > be faster ! Oracle should be slower!! > > Oracle has probally 2000 extra things to protect oracle from crashing, and > > its programs are much larger than MySQL, since it is supposed to support > too > > many th

Re: [ilugd]: [Fwd: Modem Problem]

2002-05-01 Thread Ambar Roy
> > I have got a winmodem that is working fine under Windows98 SE but my linux hardware detecting tool is unable to detect it. What could be the possibe reasons. I am really missing surfing net in my favourite enviroment. If you do have some solutions then kindly let me know http://www.linmodems

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation

2002-05-01 Thread Ambar Roy
> What does top show on > both the computer in similar load condition. That is > what needs to be checked i guess. my experience with heavily loaded linux server tells me that never use top on any server that is heavily loaded. top tends to eat up a lot of resources :( Bye, /\ |\/| |3 /\ r

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation

2002-05-01 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 11:37:31AM +0530, Ambar Roy spoke out thus: > > What does top show on > > both the computer in similar load condition. That is > > what needs to be checked i guess. > my experience with heavily loaded linux server tells me that never use top > on any server that is heavily

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation

2002-05-01 Thread amit soni
> Maybe one of the 2000 is a querry optimiser? Or one of the "many things" it OK accepted, perhaps sub queries make things faster. Is it because the result set doesnt have to travel back and forth from application to db server again and again ? Do triggers, trans, foreign keys and rest 1996 thi

[ilugd]: viewing win2K share on samba

2002-05-01 Thread rahul singh
i 've shared the win2K c:\ drive with the share name abc and mounted it on linux /mnt/win1 using smbmount command. for some minutes i m able to browse the /mnt/win1 directory but later on the commands to browse this share hang(don't seem to be working)! more over i m unable to see the share in kd

Re: [ilugd]: MySQL evaluation

2002-05-01 Thread Rajat Bhatia
> The shortest road between two points is a straight line.The person driving > on the zig-zag road will always loose. > Even if he is a much better driver, he has those extra turns to handle too. > He can never beat the straight road driver on the same hardware. Even if the > hardware load is a