Most pointless software yet

[alecjw]

MySQL have made a new engine - BLACKHOLE. It just deletes data as soon as it gets it. Pointless. Or is there a point in it?

[Bloodfen Razormaw]

It just does officially what MySQL always did anyway.

[punkinside]

lol

Seriously though, use postgres!

[Kernel Sanders]

It just does officially what MySQL always did anyway.

:biggrin:

[alecjw]

How's postgre better?

[henriquemaia]

The most pointless software ever made is NaDa (http://www.bernardbelanger.com/computing/NaDa/).

[ironfistchamp]

hehe NaDa looks great. Might have to get me that... don't know if I have the time to download.

[Lord Illidan]

The most pointless software ever made is NaDa (http://www.bernardbelanger.com/computing/NaDa/).

If you can call it software :)

[henriquemaia]

If you can call it software :)

;)
A quote from their site:

It is a reassuring piece of software that does nothing, and does it very well. That's a lot !

[Lord Illidan]

Software is the programs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_program) that enable a computer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer) to perform a specific task -wikipedia...

What task does 1 byte do??

I got it...nothing!

[henriquemaia]

Software is the programs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_program) that enable a computer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer) to perform a specific task -wikipedia...

What task does 1 byte do??

I got it...nothing!

Since that is it's main purpose, you got it all. lol.

[Bloodfen Razormaw]

How's postgre better?
It actually has features database administrators need, and handles databases properly instead of silently corrupting data or ignoring errors.

[gorilla]

still, it's a document (albeit empty), not a program.

[Wolki]

Hey, doing nothing is a great thing. We've even got 3 (!) of them in a standard ubuntu install.

(yes, it's true, false, and fsck.xfs. go and read their man pages :))