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Saw this "Important Warning"
Firefox's latest update (57.0.1) aggressively tries to reset your default search engine to Google!
First glance looks like a pissing contest,
but more correct term would be: "a pissing-off contest."
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 I was just about to go back to FF. Now this!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I'm about to throw it out because they FUBARed most of the things I liked to use. But what are the alternatives?
Mickeysoft IE? Thanks, keep it.
Mickeysoft Edge / Win 10? Thanks, keep them.
Google Chrome? Thanks, keep it.
FF is on its way out and right now I see only Opera and Vivaldi as possible candidates.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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I really liked the information that the Presto based Opera provided, now it's just another face of Blink.
Haven't tried Vivaldi, wiki makes it seem like it was because of Opera leaving Presto; but it in itself is Blink based.
Time to break out Netscape 9, Mosaic, and Lynx
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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I've been using Vivaldi for a year or so, it really does capture the spirit of the old Opera.
I can't promise it'll capture all of the things O12 did that you miss in rival browsers but it did so for me.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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So you're the only person that uses Bing, eh? I knew there had to be at least one.
Jeremy Falcon
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Ixquick. (not really that quick, but it's clean[er than google.]
actually I get pulled in to helping a lot of people whose search engines are set to Ask.com - because they were too stupid to click the No box when installing something or other
Still mozilla shouldn't be so aggressive updating settings without asking, that's just so "why we hate microsoft" - why not show clearly written option page in the installer asking people if that's what they want (and why it's good - again in particular for the the witless types on Ask.com etc.)
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Bing pays me to use them. (Seriously, $5 gift cards for Amazon.)
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I use it too - it's the only search engine accessible from my workplace network. It can't find the broad side of the only barn in a desert even if manually rotating its head towards it and pointing it with both fingers.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Sounds like you've either got some kind of malware, or your profile is corrupt. I've been using FF since it first came out, and I've literally never seen it reset my default search engine. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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And I remember "cursing in tongues" when they were pushing Yahoo.
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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Yup, that's 11GB for 35,000 rows of data in one table.
That's 323K per row.
Why?
Because it's storing XML data, and the XML data is huge. And this is how the company stores its mission critical customer data. As XML blobs.  Now, mind you, that's just a small subset. The complete set has several million records. And this isn't the only table that contains these XML blobs, as they get replicated into different tables as the part of the various workflows.
To me, that just seems in[s]ane. But the core software is built on a third party product that puts everything in XML because that way its, um, extensible!!!
[update]SQL Server's "sp_spaceused" says that the index_size is 49,024,928 KB  [/update]
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Wow...
We have tables of hundred of millions (6 zeroes) of rows, but the larges DB (of the largest client) doesn't cross the 90GB...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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another advantage you missed: xml compresses really well.
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Jeremy Falcon
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Think about that. The XML tags are basically the metadata of of the columns -- metadata (describing the data).
Those are analagous to relational db columns (names and type metadata).
So, what do people do? Store the metadata in a database that already has a way to track the metadata.
Sounds efficient.
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raddevus wrote: Those are analagous to relational db columns (names and type metadata).
Exactly, except that essentially, the schema keeps changing, so instead of doing DB migrations, they just add elements to the XML. 
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As one that does database administration, I would find that preferable. Less work for me. All the rework would be on the programming side of the house (also me) to incorporate the new XML schema changes.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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At my previous site, we had a vendor application where most of the data was in a single table: the 'Test' table. Another site decided they wanted ALL site data and overdid the pull... their database was over 100G, they couldn't do a backup (not enough room).
We implemented a solution to 'archive' older test data to another database with joins in the stored procedures to get the data as needed.
Insanity reigns.
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It can be optimized
One DB
One Table
One Field
One Record
Why else we have linq2xml
[Edit]
For the sake of backup convenience maybe a second column int autokey would be appropriate. Record '0' is then the current version and all the others are backups.
modified 5-Dec-17 10:25am.
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JustWatchLittle wrote: Why else we have linq2xml
because we needed a new acronym for GIGO
- the latter is last centuries jargon... and as the kids say "that's like 100 years ago."
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I see, I'm definitely too old to discuss These things 
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JustWatchLittle wrote: It can be optimized
I could live with:
Three servers for the IT Department basement trolls
Seven databases for the Manager-lords in their window'd offices
Nine tables for Mortal Men doomed to their cubicles
One record for the CEO to monitor them all!
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Cold be RAM and disk and case
And cold be the CPU under stress
Never more to access a data set
Never, till the CEO fails and the Company's dead
In the back room the DB shall die
And still on paper let them write
Till the dark admin lifts up his hand
And reboots the server at 3 AM
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And a partidge in a pair tree?
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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