Yea, I'm from the UK* (and that's United Kingdom, more specifically England btw) and know I live in the Midwest and I got it too.
* = Yes, United Kingdom. And not the University of Kentucky like some dickhead in a 'technical' Indianapolis company thought when I was looking for jobs, and had a.uk email address on my resume at that time.
Exactly. Just yesterday I received my latest order from Cheapbytes. RedHat 7.0 + powertools and Debian 2.2 as I want to try them both out to compare for myself. It only came to $20 *including* shipping, plus I got a few of the free CDs that Cheapbytes were giving away too. Cheapbytes are great:)
Not sure how many people would want to pay for service that deteriorates when it rains
Yea, that sucks with satellite TV too... at the moments when you feel like watching a bit of TV, like when it's cold, windy and rainy outside, the TV goes out too.. bloody thing.
If the internet connection was out too it'd be pretty damn terrible!:D
You'll probably find that for any complex site Java will give you better performance than PHP or Perl, since a good Java application server will comple dynamic pages into Java classes so no request time parsing/compilation is necessary, and there's no need to spawn a new process to handle each request.
Bzzzt. Wrong. PHP and Perl can be compiled into the server, in fact that's the only way really supported by PHP now AFAIK. I personally compile the whole lot into one httpd with MySQL support and anything else (SSL anyone?) as I've found even that speeds things up over the Apache loadable module format. There is no spawning or anything and requests are handled VERY quickly. For extra speed too there's the Zend Optimizer that will do just that, optimize PHP even further and give a decent speed boost too.
Plus, this is all FREE... so I think for the REAL MAJORITY of sites, Apache/PHP+ really kicks ass. MySQL is popular, I use it myself. PHP has wonderful database support and we're even starting to use it with DB2 at work.
LOL!!.. I love it.. that's how I feel about Java too.. It sucks ass and never should have left the development labs. The ONE thing I thought was promising when I first heard of Java was the running on different platforms idea. Sounded good. Unfortunately it just didn't make it. Whether that's due to design or implementation, I don't know. But I do know that when I want to write a program, I do NOT reach for Java.. I reach for C/C++.. or if I'm doing web stuff, PHP.
I actually hate IE for developing because of it's 'fill in the rest of a broken table' stuff.. The number of pages I've seen that have broken HTML because they only developed on IE and didn't think about the fact that their shoddy site has to be 'massaged' by IE in order to display. That's not to say that Netscape is uber-wonderful either, but at least in that you can notice that you've left table tags out etc. Of course, quite a lot of editors (I use HomeSite4.5, I like it a lot) have HTML validators (which I always use) to help ensure your pages meet spec.
It's the freedom of choice of the whole thing that makes it all work.. With 'an entity' in charge of 'all things Linux', of course it can get perverted. Deals are made. Things are made to work a particular way without any alternative. In Linux land that is different and there will always BE alternatives. I think the same was said about RedHat a while ago 'Oh!.. what if RedHat try to take over Linux!?!?'.. Bzzzt.. Wrong. Not happening. Why?.. Because someone else will just do things THEIR way and in the end its the user that decides what they put on their machine, and if there's better alternatives then we use them. That's why a lot of us are using Linux anyway in the first place. --
Fun way to torment Best Buy/Staples/CompUSA employees of the day: Go conspiciously hang out in the networking aisle, say you are looking at, say a linksys 10/100 hub versus switch, and then when he tries to explain the difference, ask "Can you tell me if this switch uses store-and-forward or cut-through switching"?
I love doing stuff like that.. going into stores and asking technical (and some quite obvious non-technical) questions and seeing the blank looks on their faces.. *gleeful cackle*.. I did that to Dixons (electronics chain) and Tandy (Euro name for Radio Shack stores) employees when I was in the UK. Now I'm in the US and do the same to Best Buy, Radio Shack (and even some Staples) employees at times too. Great fun, and proof that you need to do your own research outside of the store because noone seems to have much of a clue about the things they sell.
The SuperRoot Consortium root is not an alternative to the IANA/ICANN legacy root since we use the IANA/ICANN legacy root as our foundation. The SuperRoot Consortium root can be thought of as a "staging root" for the testing and implementation of new top level domains.
I like Gandi too.. works very well and was very simple and quick to register and modify domains with.. plus the 12 euros works out to like $10 (US) now, so it's great value too. I have a few of my domains via them.
The software problems all all seem to be down to stupid middle management forcing deadlines too soon. In the name of what?, I ask.. competition??.. with whom??. Better to do it carefully and correctly than to rush things.. jeez. You'd have thought (hoped?) that the same problems that plague commercial software projects wouldn't affect the space station efforts.
At the moment it sounds really shitty and dangerous.
That and the brain-deadness of the 'fixes' for the power system that should have been thought out more to start with just make me groan while reading that article.
Can't wait for Space Station Beta.
Maybe when we get to Space Station 1.0, it'll run smoothly.
I'd like to see you be 'on' Jupiter. You can be 'around' Jupiter, but you can't be 'on' it, as you can't land on a gaseous body in so much that Jupiter is one.
Not to mention that the gravity of such a huge planet would squish you to a pulp before you were very far in to the atmosphere.
Typical slashfuck hype isn't it?.. I remember when (misty-fade-in) slashdot used to offer good and useful news and there was less 'spin' on everything... Or maybe I'm just hallucinating.
I'm sure VA / Andover won't let a proper story get in the way of a good sensationalistic piece now. You can bet that the slashbots are well brow-beaten into believing that too.
Do they just firewall the common ports?.. If so, you could try running servers on non-standard ports. I know my local ISP has firewalled off incoming connections below port 1024. Bit annoying when I want to SSH to my dialup machine that is.
I therefore run my home SSHd on... a higher port. like 1234 or something. That way I can still get to it. Even webserving could be possible. Just get a V3 redirect URL or something to give yourself a 'normal' URL and then serve pages off your non-standard port HTTPd at home:)
Btw, in case you're wondering, I have my dialup machine scp (secure copy) its IP address to a file on my 24/7 connected Linux machine at work, so I know what IP address my box has at home to attempt to SSH to:>
Slashdot Mirror
Yea, I'm from the UK* (and that's United Kingdom, more specifically England btw) and know I live in the Midwest and I got it too.
.uk email address on my resume at that time.
* = Yes, United Kingdom. And not the University of Kentucky like some dickhead in a 'technical' Indianapolis company thought when I was looking for jobs, and had a
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Exactly. Just yesterday I received my latest order from Cheapbytes. RedHat 7.0 + powertools and Debian 2.2 as I want to try them both out to compare for myself. It only came to $20 *including* shipping, plus I got a few of the free CDs that Cheapbytes were giving away too. Cheapbytes are great :)
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Not sure how many people would want to pay for service that deteriorates when it rains
... at the moments when you feel like watching a bit of TV, like when it's cold, windy and rainy outside, the TV goes out too .. bloody thing.
:D
Yea, that sucks with satellite TV too
If the internet connection was out too it'd be pretty damn terrible!
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You'll probably find that for any complex site Java will give you better performance than PHP or Perl, since a good Java application server will comple dynamic pages into Java classes so no request time parsing/compilation is necessary, and there's no need to spawn a new process to handle each request.
Bzzzt. Wrong. PHP and Perl can be compiled into the server, in fact that's the only way really supported by PHP now AFAIK. I personally compile the whole lot into one httpd with MySQL support and anything else (SSL anyone?) as I've found even that speeds things up over the Apache loadable module format. There is no spawning or anything and requests are handled VERY quickly. For extra speed too there's the Zend Optimizer that will do just that, optimize PHP even further and give a decent speed boost too.
Plus, this is all FREE... so I think for the REAL MAJORITY of sites, Apache/PHP+ really kicks ass. MySQL is popular, I use it myself. PHP has wonderful database support and we're even starting to use it with DB2 at work.
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LOL!! .. I love it.. that's how I feel about Java too.. It sucks ass and never should have left the development labs. The ONE thing I thought was promising when I first heard of Java was the running on different platforms idea. Sounded good. Unfortunately it just didn't make it. Whether that's due to design or implementation, I don't know. But I do know that when I want to write a program, I do NOT reach for Java.. I reach for C/C++ .. or if I'm doing web stuff, PHP.
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I actually hate IE for developing because of it's 'fill in the rest of a broken table' stuff.. The number of pages I've seen that have broken HTML because they only developed on IE and didn't think about the fact that their shoddy site has to be 'massaged' by IE in order to display. That's not to say that Netscape is uber-wonderful either, but at least in that you can notice that you've left table tags out etc. Of course, quite a lot of editors (I use HomeSite4.5, I like it a lot) have HTML validators (which I always use) to help ensure your pages meet spec.
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Indeed... been there, posted that ;) ..
j/k
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And it just now makes the
The guy came up with the solution on the 26th of June 2000 it says too.
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Yea, that's like saying "Don't elect Dick Cheny as VP as his heart might explode if you sneeze loudly" .. it's possible but ..
Umm... yea..
Hmm.
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Exactly!
.. Bzzzt.. Wrong. Not happening. Why? .. Because someone else will just do things THEIR way and in the end its the user that decides what they put on their machine, and if there's better alternatives then we use them. That's why a lot of us are using Linux anyway in the first place.
It's the freedom of choice of the whole thing that makes it all work.. With 'an entity' in charge of 'all things Linux', of course it can get perverted. Deals are made. Things are made to work a particular way without any alternative. In Linux land that is different and there will always BE alternatives. I think the same was said about RedHat a while ago 'Oh!.. what if RedHat try to take over Linux!?!?'
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Fun way to torment Best Buy/Staples/CompUSA employees of the day: Go conspiciously hang out in the networking aisle, say you are looking at, say a linksys 10/100 hub versus switch, and then when he tries to explain the difference, ask "Can you tell me if this switch uses store-and-forward or cut-through switching"?
.. *gleeful cackle* .. I did that to Dixons (electronics chain) and Tandy (Euro name for Radio Shack stores) employees when I was in the UK. Now I'm in the US and do the same to Best Buy, Radio Shack (and even some Staples) employees at times too. Great fun, and proof that you need to do your own research outside of the store because noone seems to have much of a clue about the things they sell.
I love doing stuff like that.. going into stores and asking technical (and some quite obvious non-technical) questions and seeing the blank looks on their faces
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Well at least you can get the ISO for free (or fairly free, i.e. the cost of a CD-R) and try it yourself :>
Unlike M$, that IS a possibility.
PS: If you haven't got a CD-R, that's why they invented Cheapbytes
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Borgs.. Whee!
I was thinking today how much I like cubes.
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From the SuperRoot website (my emphasis):
The SuperRoot Consortium root is not an alternative to the IANA/ICANN legacy root since we use the IANA/ICANN legacy root as our foundation. The SuperRoot Consortium root can be thought of as a "staging root" for the testing and implementation of new top level domains.
The phrase 'bugger' springs to mind.
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I like Gandi too .. works very well and was very simple and quick to register and modify domains with.. plus the 12 euros works out to like $10 (US) now, so it's great value too. I have a few of my domains via them.
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And also the (unfortunate) nickname of a guy I met while at uni .. Hi Dave, if you're reading ;D
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I get 403'd when I try the gallery link you gave and the link in the article.. anyone else get 'forbidden' from it too?
Arse.. I wanted to see those screenshots.
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The software problems all all seem to be down to stupid middle management forcing deadlines too soon. In the name of what?, I ask.. competition?? .. with whom??. Better to do it carefully and correctly than to rush things.. jeez. You'd have thought (hoped?) that the same problems that plague commercial software projects wouldn't affect the space station efforts.
At the moment it sounds really shitty and dangerous.
That and the brain-deadness of the 'fixes' for the power system that should have been thought out more to start with just make me groan while reading that article.
Can't wait for Space Station Beta.
Maybe when we get to Space Station 1.0, it'll run smoothly.
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I'm waiting for the soundbyte saying something along the lines of:
"I'm Linus Torvalds and I pronounce Celex as Celex"
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LOL .. now that was more like it, lest /. turn into a Hallmark card.
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I'd like to see you be 'on' Jupiter. You can be 'around' Jupiter, but you can't be 'on' it, as you can't land on a gaseous body in so much that Jupiter is one.
Not to mention that the gravity of such a huge planet would squish you to a pulp before you were very far in to the atmosphere.
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Typical slashfuck hype isn't it? .. I remember when (misty-fade-in) slashdot used to offer good and useful news and there was less 'spin' on everything... Or maybe I'm just hallucinating.
I'm sure VA / Andover won't let a proper story get in the way of a good sensationalistic piece now. You can bet that the slashbots are well brow-beaten into believing that too.
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.. and I need only one more program to be ported over to Linux before I switch
And that would be?
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Do they just firewall the common ports? .. If so, you could try running servers on non-standard ports. I know my local ISP has firewalled off incoming connections below port 1024. Bit annoying when I want to SSH to my dialup machine that is.
... a higher port. like 1234 or something. That way I can still get to it. Even webserving could be possible. Just get a V3 redirect URL or something to give yourself a 'normal' URL and then serve pages off your non-standard port HTTPd at home :)
:>
I therefore run my home SSHd on
Btw, in case you're wondering, I have my dialup machine scp (secure copy) its IP address to a file on my 24/7 connected Linux machine at work, so I know what IP address my box has at home to attempt to SSH to
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Eh? .. target="_blank" does that. If you do target="harry" then ALL your links will open in THAT frame.. not a new one each time.
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