可怜的Linux普通用户

L: Linux很好但不够人性化也是它不争的事实...
L: Linux出现太多variations了..
W: 不像Windows...学一次终身受用.
W: 我在98SE年代买了一本《白痴学Windows 95》.
L: 我在2002年买了Red Hat 7的使用手册...
W:虽然人人大骂Windows Vista/7对UI做了很大的改动但到现在我还能顺畅的对Windows进行基本操作无需重新学习...反正在Windows不是yes就是no...就是那么简单.
L: 2004年Ubuntu开始盛行...短短两年我又要重新学会怎样用Linux, 又需要买另一本使用手册. 什么KDE, GNOME的...麻烦死了...那是普通用户需要去烦的吗？过后Ubuntu 每年推一个新版...每个新版都说比旧版好...我这个可怜的普通用户每年都得花上不少时间重新适应.... 囧

Still Learning MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle?

I had long thought that it was stupid to implement data consistency control at application layer when I first started coding with PHP and MySQL. Now, I notice that I wasn't that stupid at all, given that most relational databases are "optimized" and partitioned to allow intensive I/O and higher scalability... As a result relational databases became more like object databases which was introduced in the 80's.

As the web evolves, web applications becoming more and more demanding... Now web giants like Google, Facebook, Ebay and Digg are starting to drop relational databases and going back for non-relational storage solutions for better cloud computing. They called it as NoSQL.

As Instant as Google

As always, Google has been trying to make the search experiences more pleasant and user friendly since day one of the search engine development. There were numerous small changes being carried out through out the years. Most changes are hardly noticeable to normal users but the impact on performance and time spent per search are improving drastically. 

When we thought Google Suggest (predicts, suggest & auto complete the keywords as you type) is the best thing Google search can provide us, Google had just shown us an instant streamed search results as you type and almost as fast as you can think. Google Instant is new but it looks, behaves, feels so familiar with the old version. The improved user interface is silk, minimalist and smooth. 

Various UI elements on the Google Instant are fairy consistent. They don't get pushed to bottom as the search interface has a fixed width which I usually hate when dealing with dynamic changing interface. Thumbs up to the UI design team. The streamed results are predicting your input very well in most cases. Google claims that it reduces the total time per search by two to five seconds. What else can be as instant as Google?