If the Skein bash function was written to take in text input and spit out a hash, using cat would allow using a filename as the source of the text you want SKEIN'd. If you tried doing "Skein [args] FILE", you would just get the hash of the filename.
You do realize that RH doesn't actually control what's going on in Fedora, right? Sure, a lot of Fedora developers work at RH but it's still a community distribution.
Yes, absolutely. Will RH whacking them with a cluestick have an effect? Yes, absolutely. Where do you think Fedora would be if it wasn't an RH incubator and with no RH devs working on it?
You do realize that GNOME 3 Classic Mode only has a few user facing differences from GNOME 2, right?
1. You have to hold ALT when right clicking the panels in order to customize them. No more by-mistake applet moves.
Yes, when I eventually found this I thougt that I had my old fc14 interface back, but I'm finding that this is serioulsy buggy. I don't know if it's a gnome problem or a FC15 problem, but the ability to do this comes and goes with the wind - when I saw this comment I tried it again, and the menu popped up, GREAT! I didn't select a damn thing then I tried it again, no menu. I have this machine I'm typing this on which I wish I'd never upgraded to FC15. My machine at work will stay at FC14 because it's my dev machine in an enterprise with a team of devs waiting on my say-so to upgrade. FC14 is great for me, I wish I could stick with the UI for that but with updates for the libs and apps - I can't believe that RH can be following this Fedora death-ride, and I'm pretty sure that there's going to be a hard smack-down shortly.
My advice - stick to FC14 'til somebody at RH notices the stupidity of the gnome/FC15 upgrade and wait for the correction.
So they don't get everything from the UK (I'm not sure what Scotland does, they have their own National Library).
We've started harvesting e-theses from university repositories as part of the ETHOS project (see link in the url above), the BL will however harvest them on from us (subject to agreement with the originating uni), so they'll get a more complete collection of those.
ps - the BL should have a copy of all material covered by Legal Deposit, but even they have a 'reminder' office that has to chase up publishers, but they have it a lot easier than the rest of us Legal Deposit libraries, who have to put in a claim for each item.
Let me put my cards on the table - I really like camel. Camel will get your kids up in the morning, iron your shirts and make your tea. Camel is great, but those of you running a full-blown ESB are all going 'meh'. I'm going to ignore you, because I'm going to have to explain what camel is to other folks.
Apache Camel describes itself as an 'integration framework'. That means nothing to me, but I was looking for a solution in their problem space so I tried it.
In a nutshell, you configure camel to run 'routes', which take a single input, optionally processes it, and outputs it to one or more outputs. The good thing is that the input & output endpoints can be files, messages, db data, atom feeds, DNS lookups, FTP, HTTP, email... oh, look for yourself: http://camel.apache.org/components.html.
The processing can be handing it to Java code, xml transforms, system execs, making decisions based on the content it's handling, splitting, merging... there are recipes for doing any of the classic Enterprise Patterns mentioned in the article.
Team camel with a messaging broker (a server for queues that can safely queue and deliver messages - any data packet really) and you have a reliable and quick way to build complex workflows and process pipelines. Luckily, if you install Apache ActiveMQ, a very capable messaging broker, you get camel bundled-in, and you can just go ahead and add your routes a single XML file. You can very quickly be developing a camel-driven workflow/pipeline.
So if you have defined processes that you'd like to automate, I can't recommend camel enough. And this book is pretty much essential. I didn't grok where to start with camel from the extensive project documentation.
And this is my one criticism of camel (and a failure for me, I should be stepping up) - the beginner documentation isn't great, and it isn't at all clear how you'd go about running camel as a stand-alone process. The examples all use maven, and the review is correct in that you've got to have a handle on that to run it standalone. I've had much more mileage in using the version shipped with ActiveMQ, since I've always wanted to use it with a message broker (I'd recommend just for debugging and HA purposes - give each camel route an in & out queue to decouple and give you a chance to examine & inject data in & out of each).
Confession time - I have no java. Yes, I can read the code, but I've never understood the development environment, nor have I really had reason to. Luckily, I work with java developers who quickly understood camel from its documentation and could produce the java beans for complex processing within a route.
And my lack of java brings me to one problem that I've had with camel. It can be configured and driven best if you do it in java. But luckily for me, you can do 90% in a straightforward spring XML configuration. Routes that do a lot of work (eg, watch an email account, process messages to it that match a certain subject, lookup the from address in a db to get a uid, get that person's order history, split it into separate orders, email them a copy of each, send a PDF of the order to a remote printer, log the request) can be expressed in less than a dozen lines.
I think it appeals to me a lot because of my familiarity with shell pipelines and using those to do a lot of heavy lifting. Camel is similar in building pipelines, but it handles all the endpoint transformations for you (RSS->email, one line - sure you've got an application or script that does the same, but if you want to change it to RSS->ftp, it's not a simple change).
The camel documentation, like the book, treats the spring XML configuration as an afterthought. Fair enough, really, I'm just really glad it's there as an option for us java-impaired. I should be documenting the undocumented as I go and contributing back to this truly impressive project.
I had mod points, but I couldn't see anything worth modding when I started this spiel, I hope it's been useful if there's anybody still reading this story!
I'm pretty sure you DON'T actually want to see the bytes of a PNG on your terminal. I've ruined countless terminal sessions by accidentally catting binary.
'reset' is your friend....and 'preview' is mine. furrfu.
I'm pretty sure you DON'T actually want to see the bytes of a PNG on your terminal. I've ruined countless terminal sessions by accidentally catting binary.
I was still using the kermit app for terminal emulation and file transfer in '92. But I remember using ZMODEM within it earlier, and I thought that was then superceded by the kermit file transfer. I recall something about "ZMODEM=..." in escaped mode.
Somebody refresh me - anybody got a link to a kermit session screencap?
One man's 600 W marijuana farm is another man's compute cluster.
Are you missing a 'k' there? 600W isn't a farm, it's a closet! We've had lots of domestic farm (mainly forced vietnamese labour) busts here in Wales and 6kW is more like it, just in tiny houses.
Also, Kermit is a terminal emulator. Pick a different name.
It's a lot more than that, for those of us who suffered using it to transfer files across 9k6 baud. It really sucked being off campus home for the holidays in the early 90s. (cue real oldies and their suffering stories...), at least it was an improvement on ZMODEM.
How is that better (or much different) than my $400 n900 that's over a year old and is neater, better supported (albeit not by Nokia so much so more!)?
And I don't think UK deals are close to the best. I feel for you - we don't really love our mobile companies, but you can get affordable deals here (though most people are paying £25-£40 per month on 24-month contracts with free [i]phone). We have OFCOM, the telecoms regulator, and lots of people like to slag them off, but the market's reasonably healthy here.
More importantly, my bill right now for unlimited minutes and 5GB of data per month (one GB more than AT&T's top-of-the-line data plan) plus 400 text messages is a mere $95 per month -- and that's the whole bill taxes and all
Ouch. Mine is for 250 minutes, unlimited text & data, £10/mo (less than $20). I can lift that to 1,500 minutes for for £25, and I can drop my provider any month. Granted, I buy my own phone, but so do you, by the sound of it.
I didn't follow the link, but here is a link to that message and here is a clickable version of the link in that message, which I've now clicked--it contains a video and explains that a script tests the handsets "every couple of minutes" for SMS and wireless-broadband functionality, whereas mobile technicians have the job of testing the off-site network.
Also, Maemo was a far better & way more open operating system than Android. [my emphasis]
Hey, don't write Maemo off yet, have you seen the price of second-hand n900s? Not bad for a 16-month old phone. And new ones (what little stock some people may have) are barely cheaper than when they came out (in the UK at least). Carphone Warehouse (big UK mobile seller, all carriers + unlocked mobile-only) had some on their website this week at £350 (really cheap for new). I rang them to check some details and they had 4 left in stock; by the time I had my card out and was ordering online, they were all gone.
Maemo lives on in Meego, and Nokia (despite what you've heard) hasn't given up on Meego:
They look like the "free" handsets you can get when you sign up for a contract. They're probably pre-owned and being purged of anything that isn't part of the vanilla handset. Perhaps it's a part of a refurbishing process, too. Loading newest firmware and preparing them for use as "like-new" phones.
But that would never be done in a data centre, that's a service centre activity. They must be signalling or something. I wonder if it's part of testing/monitoring - you can't be sure that your network is working without end-to-end testing from a handset.
You realize Assange isn't an EU citizen? Hint: He's Australian.
The nationality of the individual isn't a consideration in this case. He was served with the warrant whilst in the UK, the UK must follow the procedure.
What he did isn't considered a crime in either Australia nor the UK.
It's whether he's wanted on charges of a crime in the issuing country that counts in European Arrest Warrants.
It did not work on floppies, so maybe someone saw that it would be bad.
No, floppies had no signal that a disk had been inserted, the OS had to try the drive to check that it had a disk (hence the grinding floppy action as a first thing in a boot - in case you wanted to boot from a floppy). Macs always had floppy insertion notification. The later (and failed) LS-120 (aka superdisk, 120MB floppy drives - I had one!) had it for PCs as well, and could read normal floppies, so at one point I had a linux system that automounted floppies on insert.
But no, it wasn't an OS design decision to not have autorun on floppies.
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Am I being trolled?
If the Skein bash function was written to take in text input and spit out a hash, using cat would allow using a filename as the source of the text you want SKEIN'd. If you tried doing "Skein [args] FILE", you would just get the hash of the filename.
skein < FILE
surely?
You do realize that RH doesn't actually control what's going on in Fedora, right? Sure, a lot of Fedora developers work at RH but it's still a community distribution.
Yes, absolutely. Will RH whacking them with a cluestick have an effect? Yes, absolutely. Where do you think Fedora would be if it wasn't an RH incubator and with no RH devs working on it?
You do realize that GNOME 3 Classic Mode only has a few user facing differences from GNOME 2, right?
1. You have to hold ALT when right clicking the panels in order to customize them. No more by-mistake applet moves.
Yes, when I eventually found this I thougt that I had my old fc14 interface back, but I'm finding that this is serioulsy buggy. I don't know if it's a gnome problem or a FC15 problem, but the ability to do this comes and goes with the wind - when I saw this comment I tried it again, and the menu popped up, GREAT! I didn't select a damn thing then I tried it again, no menu. I have this machine I'm typing this on which I wish I'd never upgraded to FC15. My machine at work will stay at FC14 because it's my dev machine in an enterprise with a team of devs waiting on my say-so to upgrade. FC14 is great for me, I wish I could stick with the UI for that but with updates for the libs and apps - I can't believe that RH can be following this Fedora death-ride, and I'm pretty sure that there's going to be a hard smack-down shortly.
My advice - stick to FC14 'til somebody at RH notices the stupidity of the gnome/FC15 upgrade and wait for the correction.
Things like PhD thesis only go to the BL though.
No, at the National Library for Wales we get the theses from the universites in Wales:
http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=4653
So they don't get everything from the UK (I'm not sure what Scotland does, they have their own National Library).
We've started harvesting e-theses from university repositories as part of the ETHOS project (see link in the url above), the BL will however harvest them on from us (subject to agreement with the originating uni), so they'll get a more complete collection of those.
ps - the BL should have a copy of all material covered by Legal Deposit, but even they have a 'reminder' office that has to chase up publishers, but they have it a lot easier than the rest of us Legal Deposit libraries, who have to put in a claim for each item.
Let me put my cards on the table - I really like camel. Camel will get your kids up in the morning, iron your shirts and make your tea. Camel is great, but those of you running a full-blown ESB are all going 'meh'. I'm going to ignore you, because I'm going to have to explain what camel is to other folks.
Apache Camel describes itself as an 'integration framework'. That means nothing to me, but I was looking for a solution in their problem space so I tried it.
In a nutshell, you configure camel to run 'routes', which take a single input, optionally processes it, and outputs it to one or more outputs. The good thing is that the input & output endpoints can be files, messages, db data, atom feeds, DNS lookups, FTP, HTTP, email... oh, look for yourself: http://camel.apache.org/components.html.
The processing can be handing it to Java code, xml transforms, system execs, making decisions based on the content it's handling, splitting, merging... there are recipes for doing any of the classic Enterprise Patterns mentioned in the article.
Team camel with a messaging broker (a server for queues that can safely queue and deliver messages - any data packet really) and you have a reliable and quick way to build complex workflows and process pipelines. Luckily, if you install Apache ActiveMQ, a very capable messaging broker, you get camel bundled-in, and you can just go ahead and add your routes a single XML file. You can very quickly be developing a camel-driven workflow/pipeline.
So if you have defined processes that you'd like to automate, I can't recommend camel enough. And this book is pretty much essential. I didn't grok where to start with camel from the extensive project documentation.
And this is my one criticism of camel (and a failure for me, I should be stepping up) - the beginner documentation isn't great, and it isn't at all clear how you'd go about running camel as a stand-alone process. The examples all use maven, and the review is correct in that you've got to have a handle on that to run it standalone. I've had much more mileage in using the version shipped with ActiveMQ, since I've always wanted to use it with a message broker (I'd recommend just for debugging and HA purposes - give each camel route an in & out queue to decouple and give you a chance to examine & inject data in & out of each).
Confession time - I have no java. Yes, I can read the code, but I've never understood the development environment, nor have I really had reason to. Luckily, I work with java developers who quickly understood camel from its documentation and could produce the java beans for complex processing within a route.
And my lack of java brings me to one problem that I've had with camel. It can be configured and driven best if you do it in java. But luckily for me, you can do 90% in a straightforward spring XML configuration. Routes that do a lot of work (eg, watch an email account, process messages to it that match a certain subject, lookup the from address in a db to get a uid, get that person's order history, split it into separate orders, email them a copy of each, send a PDF of the order to a remote printer, log the request) can be expressed in less than a dozen lines.
I think it appeals to me a lot because of my familiarity with shell pipelines and using those to do a lot of heavy lifting. Camel is similar in building pipelines, but it handles all the endpoint transformations for you (RSS->email, one line - sure you've got an application or script that does the same, but if you want to change it to RSS->ftp, it's not a simple change).
The camel documentation, like the book, treats the spring XML configuration as an afterthought. Fair enough, really, I'm just really glad it's there as an option for us java-impaired. I should be documenting the undocumented as I go and contributing back to this truly impressive project.
I had mod points, but I couldn't see anything worth modding when I started this spiel, I hope it's been useful if there's anybody still reading this story!
Didn't know that. Never had it fail for me, YMMV of course.
I'm pretty sure you DON'T actually want to see the bytes of a PNG on your terminal. I've ruined countless terminal sessions by accidentally catting binary.
'reset' is your friend. ...and 'preview' is mine. furrfu.
I'm pretty sure you DON'T actually want to see the bytes of a PNG on your terminal. I've ruined countless terminal sessions by accidentally catting binary.
'reset' is your friend.
OK, it wasn't spellchecked, but out of interest, 'confience' is the french for 'confidence'. A clue to the author, or a contributor, at least.
I was still using the kermit app for terminal emulation and file transfer in '92. But I remember using ZMODEM within it earlier, and I thought that was then superceded by the kermit file transfer. I recall something about "ZMODEM=..." in escaped mode.
Somebody refresh me - anybody got a link to a kermit session screencap?
One man's 600 W marijuana farm is another man's compute cluster.
Are you missing a 'k' there? 600W isn't a farm, it's a closet! We've had lots of domestic farm (mainly forced vietnamese labour) busts here in Wales and 6kW is more like it, just in tiny houses.
Also, Kermit is a terminal emulator. Pick a different name.
It's a lot more than that, for those of us who suffered using it to transfer files across 9k6 baud. It really sucked being off campus home for the holidays in the early 90s. (cue real oldies and their suffering stories...), at least it was an improvement on ZMODEM.
Really? Skype works out-of-the-box on my fedora, pulseaudio and all. Maybe I've been lucky, but it's worked for over a year across FC updates.
How is that better (or much different) than my $400 n900 that's over a year old and is neater, better supported (albeit not by Nokia so much so more!)?
And I don't think UK deals are close to the best. I feel for you - we don't really love our mobile companies, but you can get affordable deals here (though most people are paying £25-£40 per month on 24-month contracts with free [i]phone). We have OFCOM, the telecoms regulator, and lots of people like to slag them off, but the market's reasonably healthy here.
More importantly, my bill right now for unlimited minutes and 5GB of data per month (one GB more than AT&T's top-of-the-line data plan) plus 400 text messages is a mere $95 per month -- and that's the whole bill taxes and all
Ouch. Mine is for 250 minutes, unlimited text & data, £10/mo (less than $20). I can lift that to 1,500 minutes for for £25, and I can drop my provider any month. Granted, I buy my own phone, but so do you, by the sound of it.
I didn't follow the link, but here is a link to that message and here is a clickable version of the link in that message, which I've now clicked--it contains a video and explains that a script tests the handsets "every couple of minutes" for SMS and wireless-broadband functionality, whereas mobile technicians have the job of testing the off-site network.
Hey thanks, very informative.
Also, Maemo was a far better & way more open operating system than Android. [my emphasis]
Hey, don't write Maemo off yet, have you seen the price of second-hand n900s? Not bad for a 16-month old phone. And new ones (what little stock some people may have) are barely cheaper than when they came out (in the UK at least). Carphone Warehouse (big UK mobile seller, all carriers + unlocked mobile-only) had some on their website this week at £350 (really cheap for new). I rang them to check some details and they had 4 left in stock; by the time I had my card out and was ordering online, they were all gone.
Maemo lives on in Meego, and Nokia (despite what you've heard) hasn't given up on Meego:
http://meego.com/community/blogs/petermeego/2011/nokia-appoints-new-head-meego-efforts
Granted, it looks like one last roll of the dice, without strategic buy-in, but a clever company somewhere (probably out east) will be taking notice.
They look like the "free" handsets you can get when you sign up for a contract. They're probably pre-owned and being purged of anything that isn't part of the vanilla handset. Perhaps it's a part of a refurbishing process, too. Loading newest firmware and preparing them for use as "like-new" phones.
But that would never be done in a data centre, that's a service centre activity. They must be signalling or something. I wonder if it's part of testing/monitoring - you can't be sure that your network is working without end-to-end testing from a handset.
Sorry, just replying to my own post. Slightly larger version of the image here:
http://www.geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/verizon_superswitch_geek_01.jpg
Can anybody explain the mobile handsets wired up to the rack in what look like hand-free brackets in picture #3?
I'm just really curious that they do that (why actual handsets?), and what for?
You realize Assange isn't an EU citizen? Hint: He's Australian.
The nationality of the individual isn't a consideration in this case. He was served with the warrant whilst in the UK, the UK must follow the procedure.
What he did isn't considered a crime in either Australia nor the UK.
It's whether he's wanted on charges of a crime in the issuing country that counts in European Arrest Warrants.
See:
http://www.andrewbronsmep.eu/?q=content/answer-andrews-question-european-arrest-warrant
(not my first choice for a source, but I'm google-lazy and it does quote a primary source)
Obviously, He should have made more He.
It did not work on floppies, so maybe someone saw that it would be bad.
No, floppies had no signal that a disk had been inserted, the OS had to try the drive to check that it had a disk (hence the grinding floppy action as a first thing in a boot - in case you wanted to boot from a floppy). Macs always had floppy insertion notification. The later (and failed) LS-120 (aka superdisk, 120MB floppy drives - I had one!) had it for PCs as well, and could read normal floppies, so at one point I had a linux system that automounted floppies on insert.
But no, it wasn't an OS design decision to not have autorun on floppies.
No problems with 1Mb 1Mb here.
Top tip! Use != when attempting inequality on ./