GOLD STAR.

Perl operators as the periodic table. Brilliant.

Periodic Table of the Operators of Perl

The Pentaho BI Suite provides a full spectrum of business intelligence (BI) capabilities including query and reporting, interactive analysis, dashboards, ETL/data integration, data mining, and a BI platform that have made it the world's most popular open source BI suite. Pentaho's products are used by leading organizations including U.S. Naval Air Systems Command, Lifetime Networks, Terra Industries, Sun Microsystems, MySQL, and many others.
Pentaho Reporting

All organizations use reporting in one form or another. As a result, reporting is considered a core business intelligence need and often the first BI application deployed. Pentaho Reporting allows organizations to easily access, format, and deliver information to employees, customers, and partners.null

As a reporting and analysis guy, I have to say... this looks to be the first FOSS reporting package that is not totally without value other than PDF conversion, the one thing the other packages do for you. This Pentaho thing doesn't suck. All the others do. Strong endorsement by me.

Pentaho Commercial Open Source Business Intelligence: Product Overview

I'll be a little more clear than I was before: This is about the bag o' crap sales on woot.com. I'm the president of Woot Workshop, the subsidiary of Woot that does the design, writes the product descriptions, podcasts, blog posts, and moderates the forums. I work in the css/html world and am only barely familiar with the rest of the developer world. I work closely with the developers and have talked through all of the answers here (and many other ideas we've had).

Usability of the site is a massive part of my job, and making the site exciting and fun is most of the rest of it. That's where the three goals below derive. CAPTCHA harms usability, and bots steal the fun and excitement out of our crap sales.

Stop scripters from slamming your website hundreds of times a second? - Stack Overflow

But I would like my insights to be of help during these difficult and confusing times, for altruistic reasons, mostly, although not entirely. This is because when times get really bad, as they did when the Soviet Union collapsed, lots of people just completely lose it. Men, especially. Successful, middle-aged men, breadwinners, bastions of society, turn out to be especially vulnerable. And when they just completely lose it, they become very tedious company. My hope is that some amount of preparation, psychological and otherwise, can make them a lot less fragile, and a bit more useful, and generally less of a burden.

Women seem much more able to cope. Perhaps it is because they have less of their ego invested in the whole dubious enterprise, or perhaps their sense of personal responsibility is tied to those around them and not some nebulous grand enterprise. In any case, the women always seem far more able to just put on their gardening gloves and go do something useful, while the men tend to sit around groaning about the Empire, or the Republic, or whatever it is that they lost. And when they do that, they become very tedious company. And so, without a bit of mental preparation, the men are all liable to end up very lonely and very drunk. So that's my little intervention.

ClubOrlov: Social Collapse Best Practices

Pythian DBA’s have daily reports for each monitored database and some of the components are using charts to visualize the data. I’m a big fan of charts myself (when applied appropriately) and want to show how you can generate simple charts directly from the database. You’d be very surprised how easy it can be done from *any* database without installing any additional software or configuring something special.

This method is not limited to Oracle by any means — use it with MySQL, SQL Server or any other database as well as without a database — yes, visualize your sar data now!

In this example, we will plot a pie diagram with Oracle tablespaces. This would be very handy when you are starting to analyze the space allocation for a database. Here is the end result of the report for my Grid Control repository test database:

Google Charts for DBA: Tablespaces Allocation

PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a software package that permits a heterogeneous collection of Unix and/or Windows computers hooked together by a network to be used as a single large parallel computer. Thus large computational problems can be solved more cost effectively by using the aggregate power and memory of many computers. The software is very portable. The source, which is available free thru netlib, has been compiled on everything from laptops to CRAYs.

PVM enables users to exploit their existing computer hardware to solve much larger problems at minimal additional cost. Hundreds of sites around the world are using PVM to solve important scientific, industrial, and medical problems in addition to PVM's use as an educational tool to teach parallel programming. With tens of thousands of users, PVM has become the de facto standard for distributed computing world-wide.

PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine

Thanks to Erlang, the Disco core remarkably compact, currently less than 2000 lines of code. It is relatively easy to understand how the core works, and start experimenting with it or adapt it to new environments. Thanks to Python, it is easy to add new features around the core which ensures that Disco can respond quickly to real-world needs.

Disco FAQ — Disco v0.1.2 documentation

The dataflow approach to relational operators gives both pipelined and partitioned parallelism. Relational data operators take relations (uniform sets of records) as input and produce relations as outputs. This allows them to be composed into dataflow graphs that allow pipeline parallelism
(left) in which the computation of one operator proceeds in parallel with another, and partitioned parallelism in which operators (sort and scan in the diagram at the right) are replicated for each data source, and the replicas execute in parallel.

Parallel Database Systems: The Future of High Performance Database Processing

I started out modest by signing with a line or an "X". Occasionally I would do last name first. After a couple of months, I became bolder. I wrote goofy shit, drew pictures, etc. Here's a list of some of my favorite signatures over the past few months:

I AM NOT KINGPIN
I STOLE THIS
FUCK OFF
FUCK YOU
WALMART SUCKS
CALL ME
CROTCHY CROTCHINGTON
MY BALLS ITCH
911
I'M A CRIMINAL
THANKS FOR THE STUFF

Today I went the extra mile. When it came time to sign my name, a thought popped in my head. I should draw a picture. But what picture should I draw? I smirked as something completely juvenile came to me. This is a rough drawing of the signature that I provided:

HHAJAJajajahahah

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Made me laugh on a conference call

When Your Credit Card Signature Fun Backfires

If the coffee hadn’t woken up the dozens of money-seeking entrepreneurs at Wednesday morning’s Meet the Angels event — the panelists sure did.

Venture firms and angels “should be a last resort," for entrepreneurs, said Sig Mosley panelist and the Yoda of Atlanta's angel community. "It's extremely expensive and onerous. If you can avoid it, don't do it.”

Entrepreneurs, instead, were urged to financially invest in their own company as long as possible.

“Bootstrapping allows you to focus on the problem you're solving [and] your customers," Mosley said. "Raising dollars should be the last resort."

AtlanTech | Angels to entrepreneurs: You don't want our money.