How does gmail's indexing of email stored on gmail servers affect mail coming in to an ISP? "Privacy" my arse. I trust google to tread my data properly more than I do most ISPs anyway.:)
Rubbish. A friend of mine reads the news nearly every day, and still manages to make stupid comments based on misunderstanding those new reports. Reading the post probably wouldn't have helped.
Most hardware stores have those rubber things that lay on the floor and hide cables, though. It'd be cheaper to buy a cheap switch, a handful of cables, and some floor runners than it would be to buy an access point capable of handling that many clients *and* paying someone to configure an overcomplicated access control scheme.:)
I use Bugzilla for my personal task management and formy work task management (sysadmin). It works well, and since setting pu the email gateway, I just bounce requests to bugzilla@ (for those who forget to send them there themselves) and things don't get forgotten anymore. It's as much overkill as can be convenient, IMHO.
This fancy new thing really isn't jumping very far, anyway. The whole point of the ionized gas/plasma generation is to provide a conductor for the high voltage to travel over. It's not a piece of copper, but it may as well be at the high voltage (largely regardless of current).
My car ignition, for example, runs at 45,000 volts and around 1.2 amps. It's a super-high output ignition. Ususally you're looking at about half an amp or less from a system that, at 12 volts, is pulling maybe 15 amps. My ignition will knock you down, a stock ignition will just annoy you - even with a sweaty arm laying between the car's body and the plug wire (which I still wouldn't advise doing again)...
That's not a problem in the case of a Taser, as they're powered by batteries that are current-limited. Tasers work by taking the voltage and current available from a battery and essentially running that through a transformer that boosts the voltage to a point where it can jump across less of a conductor, but at the expense of reducing the current. There's not much current available in the first place, so you won't get much of a burn...
I'm suprised my irritation shows.;) I just keep telling myself "one day, the clients will all standardize on Mozilla, and the standards-compliance will come"...
Firefox (and the mozilla series of browsers) isn't too bad for JavaScript debugging (that's what I use), but there is still much to be desired in the error messages given. I can't count the number of times when I've done something wrong with some JavaScript on a page and the error console's been almost 0 help (not to mention that "Venkman" isn't much more helpful most of the time)...
I was speaking more towards things like semicolons being optional, brackets being optional, and similar things. The one that most bugs me is variable declarations, though. You don't *have* to use var, but it makes a huge scoping difference to use or not use var. That's rarely made clear, though.:(
Then there's the inconsistent DOM implementations, and horrible, horrible browsers that do things like creating a "document.all" namespace and actually *encouraging* people to use it.:)
You're right, though. I should've said that the language itself is alright, but the implementations that are commonly available make for bad learning platforms.
The problem is that HTML "intrpreters" as well as ECMA Script (Java Script, JScript, etc) are very lax as far as enforcing good syntax. While I *love* Perl, I think it'd be an awful first language for many. A beginner needs a language that doesn't let them develop really bad habits so easily. Some would argue that it's more important to get someone "hooked", which is more easily done with something that will let them make mistakes - but I think it's more useful to use a language that identifies the error and doesn't work until the error's fixed. I'm not saying that Fortran or any other evil whitespace-dependent languages are the way to go either, but I do think that something like Scheme or even Java would be a good starting point. You want lots of sample code (java.sun.com) and a compiler that tells you where the syntax error is (javac). You don't want the program to either run or, worse, appear to run without giving you any debugging info (javascript under IE).
Sure, if the "teacher" is gonna guide the "student" and drill good practices in, that's fine. But the Javascript and HTML that's to be found on the web is 95% awful code - so I personally think that'd be a bad choice for a first language. That's my 50 cents, anyway.
Pick one. I guaranteee that I either 1) know enough about it to not kill myself or 2) don't have a need to personally use the field in a capacity that will kill me.
Then again, I do agree that the minorly-stupid should probably be protected - but the really stupid "holy cow! Spilling hot coffee in my lap burns!" people should probably just be allowed to die off.
Actually, SuSE does tend to get the updates relatively quickly - it just takes a month or so to get them rolled in with the other stuff. You can get SuSE for free if you wait about 1-2 months after the retail version rolls out. It's annoying, but I think it's probably the best way for them to keep making money so they can pay programmers. If you (the general you - not specifically *you*) want it immediately, it costs a few bucks. Otherwise, it's a month or so of waiting, which isn't a big deal.
As far as the package management problem being insoluble, there *are* solutions. They require that one stays within the confines of a package manager, though. If you just use apt, rpm, pkg, etc then you won't have a problem. The increase in distributions conforming to the LSB is a giant step in the right direction, but I don't think there'll ever be a single universal package format. *nix in general, and Linux software in particular, is strongly aimed at people who will customize their systems. There are user choices available, and unfortunately, one package manager to rule them all just won't work any better than making everyone script with Perl (others will always prefer a shell, python, ruby, etc).
It's not that there's no solution - just that there's no good solution.:)
And banning calculators (in a math exam) is even less feasible.
So that's why my parents can't do basic math - there was no math testing back before calculators were available! Sigh. I took calculus through differential equations, and some matrix theory, etc. Not once have I taken a math test that couldn't be done without a calculator (most prohibited it - including the Mathematic-taught math classes). If kids can't do math without a calculator, then they haven't learned enough.
I also think everyone should be able to drive a car with a manual transmission, but that's different...:)
Package management has long been a pain in the butt for every sysadmin. If you stick with RPMs built for your specific system, you'll be fine, but then you're stuck with just what's given to you rather than getting to chose from everything available.
Now that you mention it, I think I did have to erase a couple of packages and install a couple others to meet dependencies, but that's pretty typical of rpm installs... I've been extremely impressed with the fink project, personally, and it's apt-driven. Of course, they only have a couple versions of OS X to support, and not a milion linux distros where users may have installed all sorts of different stuff, but the point, well, what was the point? Eh. The Linux experience involves chasing deps. It's been that way forever, and probably always will be that way. Such is life.
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Like I said - there are some crooks out there gaming the system, and some who only use the system the way it's supposed to be used. Unfortunatley, the crooks are the ones who the newspapers talk to. They're usually teh ones who claim a "bumper crop again this year" every time anoyne asks them, therefore keeping prices down.
eBay was the one that I noticed, though my wife later complained that Yahoo! was unresponsive. Surprisingly (or not, I guess, due to my local caching DNS) Google was still working well...
download all packages in "SuSE9.0" dir on ftp.kde.org (ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.2/SuSE/ix86/9.0/) change to directory containing all packages type "rpm -Uvh *.rpm" enjoy KDE 3.2
It wasn't hard at all. What gave you problems?
BTW, I recommend SuSE to newbies because the installer's pretty easy, the KDE's pretty well integrated (K3.2 comes with SuSE 9.1), and pretty much everything they'll want to run is already compiled and available for SuSE. I've used Xandros (yeah, I've *also* used all of the distributions as of a couple years ago when a bunch started showing up, been Linuxing for more than a decade, etc, and prefer SuSE) and wasn't all that impressed. I think SuSE's better.
Good advice for a newbie? Figure out who you're gonna ask questions of, and run what they run. The same stuff runs on all of them, but not everyone can provide support for all distros.:) For people who ask me what to run, I say SuSE because that's what's on my desktop right now. The servers are a different story, but no one asked about them...
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How does gmail's indexing of email stored on gmail servers affect mail coming in to an ISP? "Privacy" my arse. I trust google to tread my data properly more than I do most ISPs anyway. :)
Rubbish. A friend of mine reads the news nearly every day, and still manages to make stupid comments based on misunderstanding those new reports. Reading the post probably wouldn't have helped.
So, first time except for verions before the 6.x series and the live evals that they've been producing all along. :)
I installed 5.something off of downloaded ISOs years ago...
Most hardware stores have those rubber things that lay on the floor and hide cables, though. It'd be cheaper to buy a cheap switch, a handful of cables, and some floor runners than it would be to buy an access point capable of handling that many clients *and* paying someone to configure an overcomplicated access control scheme. :)
I use Bugzilla for my personal task management and formy work task management (sysadmin). It works well, and since setting pu the email gateway, I just bounce requests to bugzilla@ (for those who forget to send them there themselves) and things don't get forgotten anymore. It's as much overkill as can be convenient, IMHO.
puttygen/pagent - I use them daily. They're essential to using tortoiseCVS (over ssh) under windows, IMHO... :)
This fancy new thing really isn't jumping very far, anyway. The whole point of the ionized gas/plasma generation is to provide a conductor for the high voltage to travel over. It's not a piece of copper, but it may as well be at the high voltage (largely regardless of current).
My car ignition, for example, runs at 45,000 volts and around 1.2 amps. It's a super-high output ignition. Ususally you're looking at about half an amp or less from a system that, at 12 volts, is pulling maybe 15 amps. My ignition will knock you down, a stock ignition will just annoy you - even with a sweaty arm laying between the car's body and the plug wire (which I still wouldn't advise doing again)...
That's not a problem in the case of a Taser, as they're powered by batteries that are current-limited. Tasers work by taking the voltage and current available from a battery and essentially running that through a transformer that boosts the voltage to a point where it can jump across less of a conductor, but at the expense of reducing the current. There's not much current available in the first place, so you won't get much of a burn...
I'm suprised my irritation shows. ;) I just keep telling myself "one day, the clients will all standardize on Mozilla, and the standards-compliance will come"...
That's another biggie - the tutorials out there generally teach you how to write crap code instead of *good* code. :)
Firefox (and the mozilla series of browsers) isn't too bad for JavaScript debugging (that's what I use), but there is still much to be desired in the error messages given. I can't count the number of times when I've done something wrong with some JavaScript on a page and the error console's been almost 0 help (not to mention that "Venkman" isn't much more helpful most of the time)...
I want your debugger.
I was speaking more towards things like semicolons being optional, brackets being optional, and similar things. The one that most bugs me is variable declarations, though. You don't *have* to use var, but it makes a huge scoping difference to use or not use var. That's rarely made clear, though. :(
:)
Then there's the inconsistent DOM implementations, and horrible, horrible browsers that do things like creating a "document.all" namespace and actually *encouraging* people to use it.
You're right, though. I should've said that the language itself is alright, but the implementations that are commonly available make for bad learning platforms.
The problem is that HTML "intrpreters" as well as ECMA Script (Java Script, JScript, etc) are very lax as far as enforcing good syntax. While I *love* Perl, I think it'd be an awful first language for many. A beginner needs a language that doesn't let them develop really bad habits so easily. Some would argue that it's more important to get someone "hooked", which is more easily done with something that will let them make mistakes - but I think it's more useful to use a language that identifies the error and doesn't work until the error's fixed. I'm not saying that Fortran or any other evil whitespace-dependent languages are the way to go either, but I do think that something like Scheme or even Java would be a good starting point. You want lots of sample code (java.sun.com) and a compiler that tells you where the syntax error is (javac). You don't want the program to either run or, worse, appear to run without giving you any debugging info (javascript under IE).
Sure, if the "teacher" is gonna guide the "student" and drill good practices in, that's fine. But the Javascript and HTML that's to be found on the web is 95% awful code - so I personally think that'd be a bad choice for a first language. That's my 50 cents, anyway.
Pick one. I guaranteee that I either 1) know enough about it to not kill myself or 2) don't have a need to personally use the field in a capacity that will kill me.
Then again, I do agree that the minorly-stupid should probably be protected - but the really stupid "holy cow! Spilling hot coffee in my lap burns!" people should probably just be allowed to die off.
My keyboard's cleaner than that, but my mouse looks easily as dirty - and *my* mod won't wear off... :)
Actually, SuSE does tend to get the updates relatively quickly - it just takes a month or so to get them rolled in with the other stuff. You can get SuSE for free if you wait about 1-2 months after the retail version rolls out. It's annoying, but I think it's probably the best way for them to keep making money so they can pay programmers. If you (the general you - not specifically *you*) want it immediately, it costs a few bucks. Otherwise, it's a month or so of waiting, which isn't a big deal.
:)
As far as the package management problem being insoluble, there *are* solutions. They require that one stays within the confines of a package manager, though. If you just use apt, rpm, pkg, etc then you won't have a problem. The increase in distributions conforming to the LSB is a giant step in the right direction, but I don't think there'll ever be a single universal package format. *nix in general, and Linux software in particular, is strongly aimed at people who will customize their systems. There are user choices available, and unfortunately, one package manager to rule them all just won't work any better than making everyone script with Perl (others will always prefer a shell, python, ruby, etc).
It's not that there's no solution - just that there's no good solution.
And banning calculators (in a math exam) is even less feasible.
:)
So that's why my parents can't do basic math - there was no math testing back before calculators were available! Sigh. I took calculus through differential equations, and some matrix theory, etc. Not once have I taken a math test that couldn't be done without a calculator (most prohibited it - including the Mathematic-taught math classes). If kids can't do math without a calculator, then they haven't learned enough.
I also think everyone should be able to drive a car with a manual transmission, but that's different...
Package management has long been a pain in the butt for every sysadmin. If you stick with RPMs built for your specific system, you'll be fine, but then you're stuck with just what's given to you rather than getting to chose from everything available.
Now that you mention it, I think I did have to erase a couple of packages and install a couple others to meet dependencies, but that's pretty typical of rpm installs... I've been extremely impressed with the fink project, personally, and it's apt-driven. Of course, they only have a couple versions of OS X to support, and not a milion linux distros where users may have installed all sorts of different stuff, but the point, well, what was the point? Eh. The Linux experience involves chasing deps. It's been that way forever, and probably always will be that way. Such is life.
Like I said - there are some crooks out there gaming the system, and some who only use the system the way it's supposed to be used. Unfortunatley, the crooks are the ones who the newspapers talk to. They're usually teh ones who claim a "bumper crop again this year" every time anoyne asks them, therefore keeping prices down.
"Well enough". Heh. *That's* why so many people complain of incomprehensible gibberish on tech lines, because they speak "well enough".
eBay was the one that I noticed, though my wife later complained that Yahoo! was unresponsive. Surprisingly (or not, I guess, due to my local caching DNS) Google was still working well...
Maybe he *is* the cheap manual labor / unpaid intern...
How I installed KDE 3.2 on SuSE 9:
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:) For people who ask me what to run, I say SuSE because that's what's on my desktop right now. The servers are a different story, but no one asked about them...
download all packages in "SuSE9.0" dir on ftp.kde.org (ftp.us.kde.org/pub/kde/stable/3.2/SuSE/ix86/9.0/
change to directory containing all packages
type "rpm -Uvh *.rpm"
enjoy KDE 3.2
It wasn't hard at all. What gave you problems?
BTW, I recommend SuSE to newbies because the installer's pretty easy, the KDE's pretty well integrated (K3.2 comes with SuSE 9.1), and pretty much everything they'll want to run is already compiled and available for SuSE. I've used Xandros (yeah, I've *also* used all of the distributions as of a couple years ago when a bunch started showing up, been Linuxing for more than a decade, etc, and prefer SuSE) and wasn't all that impressed. I think SuSE's better.
Good advice for a newbie? Figure out who you're gonna ask questions of, and run what they run. The same stuff runs on all of them, but not everyone can provide support for all distros.
I'm not a marketing genius.