Seems to apply to keyboard only, with the manual saying use a dishwasher. As per this comment.
But then, what can I say about 1970s DEC hardware? The original VT-100 was top-rack dishwasher safe. No, really - that was the standard DEC repair instructions in case someone spilled something into a keyboard. Place the keyboard key-side down on the top rack of a dishwasher, normal wash cycle, air dry.
I read somewhere that the old DEC VT100 (or was it the VT220?) had instructions in the manual that said something like "put them in the dishwasher to clean up".
This is the ENTIRE TERMINAL, not just the keyboard.
Just today, I was reading an article in ComputerWorld (Canadian edition) about companies that mine the internet for a brand or company, and report flagged items to that company.
Several companies are selling this as a service or as software.
One company is Milton based RepuTrace, another is in Seattle.
They cite a case where workers said they were drunk or high when working, another case of threats against the company,...etc.
Half the comments rate +5 on the above article are just Muslim bashing. Only in the second half it turns out that the premise is false, it is published in a tabloid (Daily Mail), and Snopes had it too. But only after the sensationalism happened.
Get a clue kdawson, or stay away from the keyboard.
There are many benefits to using Open Source in schools, such as: local tax money does not go to a foreign country (for most of the world at least), no licensing fees, just pay for local contractors/consultants, if that, and kids learn transferable skills not products (they use Open Office and can make their way thru MS Office when they work, if needed).
Nice to see that. Better have the money going to local business than licensing fees that go outside the country.
I did something similar for the home network.
Completely diskless PCs are less practical in a home environment (need to source the cards, the Boot ROMs,...etc., and disks are cheap anyway).
For the home network, I don't want to chase viruses and malware. So except for one dual boot machine, everything is Linux (5 workstations, and one server).
A server at home stores all the user data. NFS handles file sharing, and NIS handles authentication (do not forget to configure/etc/nsswitch.conf to give precedence to NIS over local files)./etc/fstab has the NFS shares and what they map to.
All this is on on kubuntu for the workstations and ubuntu server on the server. I think I started doing this with Dapper, and moved on to Breezy, Edgy then now it is on Feisty.
For general computing, kubuntu is very usable. OpenOffice, FireFox and Gaim/Kopete for the basics. Skype works well, and so does Opera.
I used to have autofs too so all home directories were mounted automatically from the server, but stopped doing that several months ago. I can't remember what it was, but it was an upgrade that caused some issues (maybe around Edgy).
If you want to stay with Apache, then the quickest fix for this is to reduce the number of MaxClients so that an incoming avalanche of traffic does not cause overuse of memory and hence the swapping to hell syndrome.
What number to set it to depends on the size of each Apache process, and how much memory you can spare in the system.
As far as Lighttpd is concerned, there is an up and coming competitor called nginx (Engine X). Its reputation is that it has all the benefits of Lighty, minus the memory leaks.
I have benchmarked APC vs. eAccelerator and found that eAccelerator is some 13% faster. It also has significantly lower memory consumption than APC.
But in this case, I wish one or the other would die and we don't have that fragmentation.
Even if it is KDE that dies, against my preference, it would be better than the current situation.
One problem is that at the time this fragmentation happened, we (the open source community) were spinning it as a freedom of choice issue, and ignored the confusion and fragmentation that was in the process.
The free software community often talks about freedom of choice and how that is a good thing. While I basically agree, I think there are exceptions.
For example, in the case of MySQL vs. PostgreSQL or even vi vs. Emacs, choice is good. The user base in this case are developers, not end users.
However, on the desktop, GNOME vs. KDE is a bad thing, and rather than choice, it is causing fragmentation and confusion for the user base.
While the original argument for GNOME was a valid one (Qt was no-cost but not free, while Gtk was free), this reason is no longer true. Still, you see applications using Gtk (Mozilla, OpenOffice,...etc.).
I use Kubuntu, and only jumped on the Ubuntu bandwagon when they started an official KDE based release.
If there was only one advocated desktop, it would be easier to polish, tune, optimize, market, train, and adopt.
This is one case where choice is bad, and hinders adoption by the general public.
Fadda daw' is too literal a translation, and does not make much sense in Arabic. It is the concatenation of the two words in the same order as English, which is wrong in Arabic.
It would be more correct to say "daw' al-Fadda" (Light of [the] silver). It could also be "Noor al-Fadda" (Light of [the] silver).
I think Moonlight is a better fit here.
If you are hung up on Arabic, or something really different, then why not just Fadda (Silver!), and that is it. Easier to remember, spell and pass around.
As many of you know, Oracle bought the two transactional engines that MySQL use, namely, InnoDB (by InnoBase) and BDB (by Sleepycat).
Although the effect on the GPL version of MySQL is negligible, the possible effect on MySQL AB as a company cannot be ignored. Remember that MySQL AB licenses its database to enterprise customers under a non-GPL license, and now Oracle holds the proverbial sword.
First, MySQL bought solidDB, then started developing the Falcon transactional engine in house, which shows promise, but is not mature yet.
So, is this IPO (or the hastening thereof) a response to the above move by Oracle?
Megapixel is not the only, nor the most important, aspect.
The lens is probably more important.
This is just like the megahertz/gigahertz race, and the number of transistors in radio: something to get people to think "it has more, so it must be better", while reality is not like that at all.
I live in Waterloo, and have friends and acquaintances who work at RIM. Talking to one of them who got called that night, he says that it started with a vendor issue, and then RIM's software did not react well to that issue.
Of course he would not elaborate more on what it is.
The outage lasted about 12 hours overnight Tuesday for BlackBerry users mainly in North America, RIM and users reported.
RIM said a fail-over system designed to stop the impact of such a problem did not work as expected, either. The company apologized to its 8 million users. RIM added that security and capacity issues were not the cause of the outage.
"RIM has determined that the incident was triggered by the introduction of a new, noncritical system routine that was designed to provide better optimization of the system's cache," RIM officials said in a statement.
"The system routine was expected to be nonimpacting with respect to the real-time operation of the BlackBerry infrastructure, but the pretesting of the system routine proved to be insufficient," the statement said.
The new system routine "produced an unexpected impact and triggered a compounding series of interaction errors between the system's operational database and cache," according to the statement. "After isolating the resulting database problem and unsuccessfully attempting to correct it, RIM began it's fail-over process to a backup system."
RIM described the backup system inadequacies this way: "Although the backup system and fail-over process had been repeatedly and successfully tested previously, the fail-over process did not fully perform to RIM's expectations in this situation and therefore caused further delay in restoring service and processing the resulting message queue."
DNA will have 100 other copies of memmove() in other places, all different, all incompatible, and most with bugs. Except that you can't call them bugs, because there is no spec. You expect them to do "wrong" things every now and then, indeed often.
Hmmm, let us see.
Many copies of the same function.
All different.
All incompatible.
Most have bugs.
No specs.
Go wrong every now and then.
Sounds like the majority of legacy software systems out there in large corporations...
I have an always on setup using USB enclosures, but some enclosures are flaky and can't stay up.
Ideally one would power them off and even remove them to an offsite backup regularly, but the convenience of not having to go into the basement/computer room every day makes it more convenient to keep them on always.
1. The silent enclosures have no fans, and are unstable. Probably the disk heats up or the chipset, if they are kept powered all the time.
2. The fan powered ones can be kept up all the time but are really really noisy. Not an issue for the basement server, or computer room, but for an office settings it is unacceptable.
3. Offsite backup can be done, but not with just two disks. Offsite backup is really a good idea, protecting from disasters like theft, flooding, fire,...etc. Easier to do with tapes and DVDs.
This is one of many cases that show that the US government is really messed up.
They want the keys to something the whole world depends on, and the ability to disrupt it, but deny that to anyone else.
The same goes for the militarization of space: they want to be able to do it, and deny anyone else from doing the same.
The same goes for weapons of mass destruction: they want to keep it, and allow current allies to keep it, yet selectively deny certain current enemies (real or perceived) from having the same.
This double standard, coupled with unilateral actions against the advice and objections of the most of the world, is what makes the current US government so scary.
Americans can do better than that. You guys used to admired, and yes, envied, but in a good way. The rest of the world looked up to you.
Now this admiration has turned to resentment, and resignation. The rest of the world cannot vote in US presidential elections, yet we are affected by that decision without having a say at all. Sort of like when you rebelled against a king that taxed you without representation.
It is beyond most of the world why you reelected the same administration again, despite of all its short comings, and their continued heavy handed meddling.
The Democrat taking over congress is a good sign.
Please continue to fix this. You indeed can, and you deserve better. The rest of the world deserves better too.
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I read somewhere that the old DEC VT100 (or was it the VT220?) had instructions in the manual that said something like "put them in the dishwasher to clean up".
This is the ENTIRE TERMINAL, not just the keyboard.
Not data. This assumes it is compiled already and this is the object code.
...
/* comment */ // comment
:-)
...
I think DNA is more like an interpreted language and this is just comments between the actual lines of code
Like PHP, there are so many ways you comment:
# comment
So, it appears as junk, or can be mistaken for data.
Yes, still having my morning tea
Interesting ...
...etc.
Just today, I was reading an article in ComputerWorld (Canadian edition) about companies that mine the internet for a brand or company, and report flagged items to that company.
Several companies are selling this as a service or as software.
One company is Milton based RepuTrace, another is in Seattle.
They cite a case where workers said they were drunk or high when working, another case of threats against the company,
Here is the full article.
Arab, Muslims, ... what is the difference?
This article was posted by the same kdawson editor who approved an article in YRO about UK schools dropping Holocaust education for fear of offending Muslim students. What does this have to do with the O in YRO is beyond me.
Half the comments rate +5 on the above article are just Muslim bashing. Only in the second half it turns out that the premise is false, it is published in a tabloid (Daily Mail), and Snopes had it too. But only after the sensationalism happened.
Get a clue kdawson, or stay away from the keyboard.
Just two days ago, there was a front page story here on a Kamloops, British Columbia school district success story with Linux and thin clients.
There are many benefits to using Open Source in schools, such as: local tax money does not go to a foreign country (for most of the world at least), no licensing fees, just pay for local contractors/consultants, if that, and kids learn transferable skills not products (they use Open Office and can make their way thru MS Office when they work, if needed).
Nice to see that. Better have the money going to local business than licensing fees that go outside the country.
...etc., and disks are cheap anyway).
/etc/nsswitch.conf to give precedence to NIS over local files). /etc/fstab has the NFS shares and what they map to.
I did something similar for the home network.
Completely diskless PCs are less practical in a home environment (need to source the cards, the Boot ROMs,
For the home network, I don't want to chase viruses and malware. So except for one dual boot machine, everything is Linux (5 workstations, and one server).
A server at home stores all the user data. NFS handles file sharing, and NIS handles authentication (do not forget to configure
All this is on on kubuntu for the workstations and ubuntu server on the server. I think I started doing this with Dapper, and moved on to Breezy, Edgy then now it is on Feisty.
For general computing, kubuntu is very usable. OpenOffice, FireFox and Gaim/Kopete for the basics. Skype works well, and so does Opera.
I used to have autofs too so all home directories were mounted automatically from the server, but stopped doing that several months ago. I can't remember what it was, but it was an upgrade that caused some issues (maybe around Edgy).
If you want to stay with Apache, then the quickest fix for this is to reduce the number of MaxClients so that an incoming avalanche of traffic does not cause overuse of memory and hence the swapping to hell syndrome.
What number to set it to depends on the size of each Apache process, and how much memory you can spare in the system.
As far as Lighttpd is concerned, there is an up and coming competitor called nginx (Engine X). Its reputation is that it has all the benefits of Lighty, minus the memory leaks.
I have benchmarked APC vs. eAccelerator and found that eAccelerator is some 13% faster. It also has significantly lower memory consumption than APC.
It includes:
Disclaimer: this is stuff that I have written.
Yes, there is too much duplication of effort and NIH (not invented here). Which is sad ...
...
As I said, it does not matter in some cases (e.g. vi/vim vs. Emacs).
But the desktop case is the most visible one, and the one that most directly affects end users.
Oh well
Obviously, I prefer KDE.
But in this case, I wish one or the other would die and we don't have that fragmentation.
Even if it is KDE that dies, against my preference, it would be better than the current situation.
One problem is that at the time this fragmentation happened, we (the open source community) were spinning it as a freedom of choice issue, and ignored the confusion and fragmentation that was in the process.
You touched a nerve here.
...etc.).
The free software community often talks about freedom of choice and how that is a good thing. While I basically agree, I think there are exceptions.
For example, in the case of MySQL vs. PostgreSQL or even vi vs. Emacs, choice is good. The user base in this case are developers, not end users.
However, on the desktop, GNOME vs. KDE is a bad thing, and rather than choice, it is causing fragmentation and confusion for the user base.
While the original argument for GNOME was a valid one (Qt was no-cost but not free, while Gtk was free), this reason is no longer true. Still, you see applications using Gtk (Mozilla, OpenOffice,
I use Kubuntu, and only jumped on the Ubuntu bandwagon when they started an official KDE based release.
If there was only one advocated desktop, it would be easier to polish, tune, optimize, market, train, and adopt.
This is one case where choice is bad, and hinders adoption by the general public.
Miguel
Fadda daw' is too literal a translation, and does not make much sense in Arabic. It is the concatenation of the two words in the same order as English, which is wrong in Arabic.
It would be more correct to say "daw' al-Fadda" (Light of [the] silver). It could also be "Noor al-Fadda" (Light of [the] silver).
I think Moonlight is a better fit here.
If you are hung up on Arabic, or something really different, then why not just Fadda (Silver!), and that is it. Easier to remember, spell and pass around.
As many of you know, Oracle bought the two transactional engines that MySQL use, namely, InnoDB (by InnoBase) and BDB (by Sleepycat).
Although the effect on the GPL version of MySQL is negligible, the possible effect on MySQL AB as a company cannot be ignored. Remember that MySQL AB licenses its database to enterprise customers under a non-GPL license, and now Oracle holds the proverbial sword.
First, MySQL bought solidDB, then started developing the Falcon transactional engine in house, which shows promise, but is not mature yet.
So, is this IPO (or the hastening thereof) a response to the above move by Oracle?
Megapixel is not the only, nor the most important, aspect.
The lens is probably more important.
This is just like the megahertz/gigahertz race, and the number of transistors in radio: something to get people to think "it has more, so it must be better", while reality is not like that at all.
Of course he would not elaborate more on what it is.
This Computer World article has more detail.
I think something is not right. I doubt Assyrian inscriptions existed before 2400 BCE.
Perhaps it is the Sumerians? They inhabited Mesopotamia at that time.
And from the CBC.
Hmmm, let us see.
Sounds like the majority of legacy software systems out there in large corporations
Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi.
In other words, Gods may do what cattle may not.
I have an always on setup using USB enclosures, but some enclosures are flaky and can't stay up.
Ideally one would power them off and even remove them to an offsite backup regularly, but the convenience of not having to go into the basement/computer room every day makes it more convenient to keep them on always.
See my comment here for more details.
I am doing exactly that since mid least year.
...etc. Easier to do with tapes and DVDs.
Bought two 250GB disks (Cdn$70 each on sale), and two USB enclosures (Cdn$27 each).
Works out of the box with Linux.
A cron job does an incremental dump to BOTH disks once a day. Once a week, a level 0 dump is performed and several versions of that are kept.
Details here:
- Setting up a hard disk USB 2.0 enclosure for backup under Linux.
- Ubuntu Linux backup of a laptop using a USB enclosure and the dump utility
Drawbacks?
1. The silent enclosures have no fans, and are unstable. Probably the disk heats up or the chipset, if they are kept powered all the time.
2. The fan powered ones can be kept up all the time but are really really noisy. Not an issue for the basement server, or computer room, but for an office settings it is unacceptable.
3. Offsite backup can be done, but not with just two disks. Offsite backup is really a good idea, protecting from disasters like theft, flooding, fire,
You know what?
This is one of many cases that show that the US government is really messed up.
They want the keys to something the whole world depends on, and the ability to disrupt it, but deny that to anyone else.
The same goes for the militarization of space: they want to be able to do it, and deny anyone else from doing the same.
The same goes for weapons of mass destruction: they want to keep it, and allow current allies to keep it, yet selectively deny certain current enemies (real or perceived) from having the same.
This double standard, coupled with unilateral actions against the advice and objections of the most of the world, is what makes the current US government so scary.
Indeed this feels like the saying: Gods may do what cattle can't.
Americans can do better than that. You guys used to admired, and yes, envied, but in a good way. The rest of the world looked up to you.
Now this admiration has turned to resentment, and resignation. The rest of the world cannot vote in US presidential elections, yet we are affected by that decision without having a say at all. Sort of like when you rebelled against a king that taxed you without representation.
It is beyond most of the world why you reelected the same administration again, despite of all its short comings, and their continued heavy handed meddling.
The Democrat taking over congress is a good sign.
Please continue to fix this. You indeed can, and you deserve better. The rest of the world deserves better too.
My understanding is that Interac (debit cards for USians) are not affected, but credit card may have been stolen.
A message on TJX's corporate web site advise customers to take certain steps (Canadian version), which include getting a credit report.
I did that, since we shop at Winners occasionally, and did not find anything unusual, and our credit cards have not shown any unusual transactions.