Actually, I just returned from Japan and got a 1 gb sim card from econnectjapan.com for data use without needing to be a citizen or having a long-term residency card. Did it on line and it was quick and easy.
We use Slony. It is a delicate beast, but works quite well if you take time to read the limited documentation. You can use a kludge to keep schema changes in line: if you execute all schema changes through EXECUTE SCRIPT statements on the master server, all the slave nodes will get the schema changes. As for large object support, you're right; it is a problem.
PITR recovery and log replication may work in 8.2; but I agree with the posters who complain that there is no easy replication for postgresql.
Tekserve has been an amazing Apple resource in NYC for over 15 years. I bought my Powerbook from them. Their tech department is legendary. I would trust their word over Apple (especially about things like Logic Board problems, etc.)
Disney is distributing this -- they have a deal with Studio Ghibli for all their works, I believe.
I believe that it will _not_ get theatrical release in the US, but will be released straight to DVD, as was "Castle in the Sky" and "Kiki's Delivery Service". More's the pity.
1) It's not Miyazaki's last work -- it was released in Japan in 1992. He's currently working on "Howl's Moving Castle", which is slated for release in Japan in July.
2) The audio was fine -- were you at the same screening I was? -- rich, convincing stereo sound --
Not that it matters that much, but Safari on Mac OSX doesn't (yet) support gzip encoding. But that's a bug that's been pointed out by lots of people...
Surprised that no one has mentioned Nagios. Used to be called Netsaint. We've used it to monitor about 10 servers for about 3 years now. It's good for monitoring almost anything about your hardware you can think of, as long as you have the ability to get back the extended information from your motherboard (temperature, etc). It's open source, with many plugins & writing plugins for it is very simple.
Having just sat through a 2 hour meeting with a salesperson featuring yet another new vertical application for the financial service industry, I have to say it's not just MSOffice or XP that's the demon.
Most new software for specialized markets is written in Visual C++ and is trying to ape windows 2K or Windows 2000 look and integrate with MSOffice on some level. The result? Overly busy apps that can break in numerous ways, with way too many controls, tabs and windows on the screen & counter-intuitive menus, poor keystroke bindings.
It's not the case that the users are stupid. The GUI metaphors designed for Outlook or Word quickly break if they get too complex...
That's why the writer of the article is right to feel nostalgic for his application 2 versions ago with a boxy DOS interface and fast key bindings.
In both OE and Netscape, you can change your preferences to save messages for "offline" viewing. If you do this, you can transfer all your IMAP folder messages to your computer that way. Prepare to wait awhile, if you've really got hundreds of messages.
If you use NS, I think they're saved in mbox format. In any case, you then have them locally and can archive them from there (or transfer them to your new IMAP server).
Before people flame the ADA and access to the web for the blind, they should remember that they too could become blind someday.
The web and HTML were created to make information _more_ accessible to people, not less. Good coding for the web is supposed to ensure that people with _any_ type of browser can get your content, not just people with IE+flash. It's not very hard to make your sight accessible for the blind -- just use well-formed HTML or the new flash accessibility extensions.
The more accessible the web is for all of us, the better we all are.
Just want to recommend that all RH users (and slackware too) check out checkinstall.
It's a utility that automagically changes tarball installs into RPM or slackware package installs.
I run it like this:
./configure
make
make test (if necessary)
checkinstall
Checkinstall first installs the build into a temp directory, builds the RPM or slackware package, and then installs the package.
I've been using it for the past 8 months and it's saved me many times from giving up on the RPM database. The developer is working on getting Debian pkgs going too.
Suggest you check out the KRUD distribution -- based on RH 7.0; it's been endorsed by Eric S. Raymond & is explicitly targeted at tightening RH's security.
It's at .
I've got a yearly subscription & it's saved me a lot of hassle. My wu-ftpd for RH6.2 was patched long ago...
Jesus -- "up to your knees?"
There's nothing cute about a government curtailing individual freedom -- and racism doesn't help. It wouldn't be funny if it were happening to you -- and objectifying the people involved into some little teddy bears is just... insensitive and boring...
I think a lot of people are missing the point here. This turntable (which was prototyped in the late 80s, it's true, but only released via Japanese capital now) is a revolutionary thing for vinyl/shellac records. LPs, 45s & 78s have the potential to last a lot longer than CDs. I have 78s that are easily 90 years old that still play & have the potential to last to the end of the century without detriorated further. CDs have an unknown life expectancy. The polymer layers can/will detriorate & when they do, the information is just --- gone.... The problem with records is the playback medium always wears the grooves down more, so they will slower wear away with play. But this turntable offers a wear-free way playing back records. I realize this is high-end audio porn price level -- but if I had the dough, I'd buy one in a flash. I've been recorded both on records and on CDs, all on obscure labels which will never be reissued (unless a miracle happens) & I bet you my vinyl records will be in much better shape in 60 years.
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Actually, I just returned from Japan and got a 1 gb sim card from econnectjapan.com for data use without needing to be a citizen or having a long-term residency card. Did it on line and it was quick and easy.
We use Slony. It is a delicate beast, but works quite well if you take time to read the limited documentation. You can use a kludge to keep schema changes in line: if you execute all schema changes through EXECUTE SCRIPT statements on the master server, all the slave nodes will get the schema changes. As for large object support, you're right; it is a problem.
PITR recovery and log replication may work in 8.2; but I agree with the posters who complain that there is no easy replication for postgresql.
Want to echo this.
Tekserve has been an amazing Apple resource in NYC for over 15 years. I bought my Powerbook from them. Their tech department is legendary. I would trust their word over Apple (especially about things like Logic Board problems, etc.)
Disney is distributing this -- they have a deal with Studio Ghibli for all their works, I believe.
I believe that it will _not_ get theatrical release in the US, but will be released straight to DVD, as was "Castle in the Sky" and "Kiki's Delivery Service". More's the pity.
1) It's not Miyazaki's last work -- it was released in Japan in 1992. He's currently working on "Howl's Moving Castle", which is slated for release in Japan in July.
2) The audio was fine -- were you at the same screening I was? -- rich, convincing stereo sound --
Porco Rosso was stunning and the english dub was really quite decent.
If any of you get the chance, please try to see Miyazaki's work on screen -- I've seen Porco Rosso before on DVD and it's about 10x better on film --
They give you a static IP, and allow you to host your own mail server, web server, the works...
I've been a pretty satisfied customer over the last three years.
Take a look at Gibraltar. It's a version of Debian designed for firewalls; it runs completely off of CD, so hackers have no hard drive to play with..
If you've got fink, you could look at dia as well.
Better just read the O'Reilly net article about perl design patterns here
Not that it matters that much, but Safari on Mac OSX doesn't (yet) support gzip encoding. But that's a bug that's been pointed out by lots of people...
pod (plain old documentation) is what most perl hackers use. Easier to maintain than javadoc and the documentation stays with the code.
$ perldoc perlpod
Surprised that no one has mentioned Nagios. Used to be called Netsaint. We've used it to monitor about 10 servers for about 3 years now. It's good for monitoring almost anything about your hardware you can think of, as long as you have the ability to get back the extended information from your motherboard (temperature, etc). It's open source, with many plugins & writing plugins for it is very simple.
People are missing the point of his column.
Having just sat through a 2 hour meeting with a salesperson featuring yet another new vertical application for the financial service industry, I have to say it's not just MSOffice or XP that's the demon.
Most new software for specialized markets is written in Visual C++ and is trying to ape windows 2K or Windows 2000 look and integrate with MSOffice on some level. The result? Overly busy apps that can break in numerous ways, with way too many controls, tabs and windows on the screen & counter-intuitive menus, poor keystroke bindings.
It's not the case that the users are stupid. The GUI metaphors designed for Outlook or Word quickly break if they get too complex...
That's why the writer of the article is right to feel nostalgic for his application 2 versions ago with a boxy DOS interface and fast key bindings.
In both OE and Netscape, you can change your preferences to save messages for "offline" viewing. If you do this, you can transfer all your IMAP folder messages to your computer that way. Prepare to wait awhile, if you've really got hundreds of messages.
If you use NS, I think they're saved in mbox format. In any case, you then have them locally and can archive them from there (or transfer them to your new IMAP server).
I'm amazed at most of the comments.
Before people flame the ADA and access to the web for the blind, they should remember that they too could become blind someday.
The web and HTML were created to make information _more_ accessible to people, not less. Good coding for the web is supposed to ensure that people with _any_ type of browser can get your content, not just people with IE+flash. It's not very hard to make your sight accessible for the blind -- just use well-formed HTML or the new flash accessibility extensions.
The more accessible the web is for all of us, the better we all are.
You know, PostgreSQL has been ported to Windows. You have to use cygwin, but it's stable and runs ok. See here for details.
Just want to recommend that all RH users (and slackware too) check out checkinstall.
It's a utility that automagically changes tarball installs into RPM or slackware package installs.
I run it like this:
./configure
make
make test (if necessary)
checkinstall
Checkinstall first installs the build into a temp directory, builds the RPM or slackware package, and then installs the package.
I've been using it for the past 8 months and it's saved me many times from giving up on the RPM database. The developer is working on getting Debian pkgs going too.
It's available here.
Okay, the link for KRUD is here.
Suggest you check out the KRUD distribution -- based on RH 7.0; it's been endorsed by Eric S. Raymond & is explicitly targeted at tightening RH's security. It's at . I've got a yearly subscription & it's saved me a lot of hassle. My wu-ftpd for RH6.2 was patched long ago...
Jesus -- "up to your knees?" There's nothing cute about a government curtailing individual freedom -- and racism doesn't help. It wouldn't be funny if it were happening to you -- and objectifying the people involved into some little teddy bears is just ... insensitive and boring...
I think a lot of people are missing the point here. This turntable (which was prototyped in the late 80s, it's true, but only released via Japanese capital now) is a revolutionary thing for vinyl/shellac records. LPs, 45s & 78s have the potential to last a lot longer than CDs. I have 78s that are easily 90 years old that still play & have the potential to last to the end of the century without detriorated further. CDs have an unknown life expectancy. The polymer layers can/will detriorate & when they do, the information is just --- gone.... The problem with records is the playback medium always wears the grooves down more, so they will slower wear away with play. But this turntable offers a wear-free way playing back records. I realize this is high-end audio porn price level -- but if I had the dough, I'd buy one in a flash. I've been recorded both on records and on CDs, all on obscure labels which will never be reissued (unless a miracle happens) & I bet you my vinyl records will be in much better shape in 60 years.