Case in point: yesterday I must have pressed something while copying a cell in Excel.
Before I knew it (speedy laptop), Excel had changed every row in the sheet (so that's 65K rows) and then realised something was wrong and raised an alert box for each row.
It was quite easy to work out it would be faster to kill Excel via the task manager window and redo the unsaved work, than click "ok" on 65K little windows.
I use Gentoo on a few boxes but haven't followed the mailing lists for a while now- too much volume.
Do they use vmware at all now? Having installed VMWare Server (free) last week, I am astounded at how useful it is- one could have multiple Gentoos (Seeds or not) constantly building and doing recursive QA. Very impressive stuff.
The VMWare site has downloads of difference virtual images: I've just installed a couple of Ubuntu images and ReactOS which I would never have time to do if they weren't neatly packaged as VMs.
Gentoo- release the Seeds as VMs!! Easier to end users to test and try out.
How many Linux distributions can you download and USE in one day?
While I could certainly download tens of GBs, I wouldn't be able to actually use it. There aren't enough hours in the day to more than boot the 10 or so distributions that would make up 5GB. I have better things to do. And I would hope that most students at a university are similar.
Now, there will be exceptions (e.g. freely available census/seismic/GIS data), but most uses of >5GB are not urgent and I think people who want to download 20 Linux distributions or VMWare images can probably cope with having to do it over a couple of days.
Yes, all "proper" cameras (even phones) will put EXIF in the JPEG header.
It's very handy, as it allows an easy way to de-dupe photos and also to check the exact time they were taken.
I wrote some C a long time ago to update EXIF data as well when I was working with Hugin on panoramas so the CCD size reported on my Olympus C750uz was correct...
As the other poster said, Windows will give you a summary of the EXIF info. You can also use "identify" from ImageMagick to script it, or "exifinfo" which is better.
Our ADSL in the country sometimes drops off, but the telephone itself is much more reliable. I keep a couple of free/pay as you go dialup ISPs written down so I can connect quickly and send emails.
All of the boys in my year were taught BASIC by copying out programs (generally simple games) from the "yellow pages" in Acorn User (or whatever it was called back then) and then improving them.
This generally started off with changing "LET LIVES=3" to "LET LIVES=999"- simple and effective. One then got into loops, GOTOs et cetera.
Make it simple - kids don't want/need to know about pointers or "computer science". They want to make the machine ask their name and then print "hello name".
Gmail and others e.g. Hotmail should theoretically have the best rates of spam filtering. Millions of users manually clicking "Report Spam" on SPAM must beat even high-flying automatic code for categorising SPAM. The more SPAM that comes through, the better their filters should get. Having said that, I get up to 10 spams per day through Gmail, although my spam folder is currently 4684-strong (holds 30 days of spam). Which is OK by me.
It would be interesting to know how they filter it or give the outside world access to their spam collection.
Vista is coming out soon, which will shift the goal-posts.
MS presented it to us at my company - little there to tempt us, but lots of flashy effects to wow consumers. And you know that new computers will come with it installed as a given.
The new Office though- that's quite interesting...
Might be a silly question, but are you running a PHP cache? You can't start asking performance questions unless you are.
MediaWiki and Drupal will not perform at their best unless you have one.
If you have mostly static pages and Drupal's caching is still too slow then a) you're doing something wrong/your site is enormous or b) look at reverse proxies like Squid. Fairly simple to set up.
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But that's a decent quality bit of kit. I have the MZR 50, and it's bombproof. Battery life is also exceptional, even now.
Especially when lots come up at once.
Case in point: yesterday I must have pressed something while copying a cell in Excel.
Before I knew it (speedy laptop), Excel had changed every row in the sheet (so that's 65K rows) and then realised something was wrong and raised an alert box for each row.
It was quite easy to work out it would be faster to kill Excel via the task manager window and redo the unsaved work, than click "ok" on 65K little windows.
I use Gentoo on a few boxes but haven't followed the mailing lists for a while now- too much volume.
Do they use vmware at all now? Having installed VMWare Server (free) last week, I am astounded at how useful it is- one could have multiple Gentoos (Seeds or not) constantly building and doing recursive QA. Very impressive stuff.
The VMWare site has downloads of difference virtual images: I've just installed a couple of Ubuntu images and ReactOS which I would never have time to do if they weren't neatly packaged as VMs.
Gentoo- release the Seeds as VMs!! Easier to end users to test and try out.
May I ask what you do with over 5GB?
How many Linux distributions can you download and USE in one day?
While I could certainly download tens of GBs, I wouldn't be able to actually use it. There aren't enough hours in the day to more than boot the 10 or so distributions that would make up 5GB. I have better things to do. And I would hope that most students at a university are similar.
Now, there will be exceptions (e.g. freely available census/seismic/GIS data), but most uses of >5GB are not urgent and I think people who want to download 20 Linux distributions or VMWare images can probably cope with having to do it over a couple of days.
Yes, all "proper" cameras (even phones) will put EXIF in the JPEG header.
It's very handy, as it allows an easy way to de-dupe photos and also to check the exact time they were taken.
I wrote some C a long time ago to update EXIF data as well when I was working with Hugin on panoramas so the CCD size reported on my Olympus C750uz was correct...
As the other poster said, Windows will give you a summary of the EXIF info. You can also use "identify" from ImageMagick to script it, or "exifinfo" which is better.
I much prefer Google video.... EXCEPT that on YouTube I can make videos private, whereas on Google all videos are public.
I much prefer the Google uploader as well; and the servers are faster.
At work, Google will happily upload at over 1MB/sec; whereas youtube trundles along at 50KB/sec.
Good point re the cell phone.
I'd also add that there's always dialup.
Our ADSL in the country sometimes drops off, but the telephone itself is much more reliable. I keep a couple of free/pay as you go dialup ISPs written down so I can connect quickly and send emails.
But then your DNS requests would still be picked up...
That's also a failure of "standard" tor client setups.
Give everyone a miner's head-torch!
I learnt BASIC at 7 then C at 15.
All of the boys in my year were taught BASIC by copying out programs (generally simple games) from the "yellow pages" in Acorn User (or whatever it was called back then) and then improving them.
This generally started off with changing "LET LIVES=3" to "LET LIVES=999"- simple and effective. One then got into loops, GOTOs et cetera.
Make it simple - kids don't want/need to know about pointers or "computer science". They want to make the machine ask their name and then print "hello name".
There are several of us on here...
I'm experiencing the same- much more spam in the last few weeks in my gmail account.
Then again, it's been a lot less over the last 2 days...
Gmail and others e.g. Hotmail should theoretically have the best rates of spam filtering. Millions of users manually clicking "Report Spam" on SPAM must beat even high-flying automatic code for categorising SPAM.
The more SPAM that comes through, the better their filters should get. Having said that, I get up to 10 spams per day through Gmail, although my spam folder is currently 4684-strong (holds 30 days of spam). Which is OK by me.
It would be interesting to know how they filter it or give the outside world access to their spam collection.
That's because it's been a sitting target.
Vista is coming out soon, which will shift the goal-posts.
MS presented it to us at my company - little there to tempt us, but lots of flashy effects to wow consumers. And you know that new computers will come with it installed as a given.
The new Office though- that's quite interesting...
You obviously get through more digital cameras than I do!
Might be a silly question, but are you running a PHP cache? You can't start asking performance questions unless you are.
MediaWiki and Drupal will not perform at their best unless you have one.
If you have mostly static pages and Drupal's caching is still too slow then a) you're doing something wrong/your site is enormous or b) look at reverse proxies like Squid. Fairly simple to set up.
I also find cold showers help after exercise.
We have similar. But then they are all doubled for resilience.
Thing is, I've never seen a problem where we've needed doubled-up network cards...
And most servers have at least 2 if not 4 ethernet cards/ports.
I ran colinux for a while on my Windows laptop. It really didn't like being hibernated (or whatever Windows calls the sleep thing).
Also, it doesn't seem to have been updated for a while now.
While some great programming, it's probably being superceded by newer and cheaper VMWare/Xen solutions.
It's just that "temporarily re-tasking" an UPS isn't quite so easy.
Unless someone has invented a widget I'm not aware of to splice in power from elsewhere...
Very topical: I saw this excellent cartoon (scroll down) on a blog; sums up the decision to use Excel as a "database".
If I had a pound for every time I've seen Excel stuffed with information and being used as a hacky database just waiting to fall over...
Yes, you're absolutely right. Those libgaim guys deserve most of the credit- but Meebo is doing jolly well and now expanding their offices. Again.
The Skype for Linux is a binary - but there must be a way of wrapping it... or perhaps using the Windows binary through Wine.
I'd hate to guess how much RAM that would cost though...
Some people have analysed it rather well but there is still a long way to go.
Thanks for that link - very useful.
I keep getting POSTs from a web spammer in Malaysia- I've blocked several subnets but your country codes could help this.
The guy looks like he's still learning how to use Perl's LWP to post spam- as spammers go, he's not very good at it.
If only those Meebo guys (and girls) could hack up a Skype back-end as well...