Re:Comparing UML to N1 Grid Containers? Ridiculous
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>> While Linux may have counterparts to various Solaris features, in terms of maturity, feature set, and performance of these features Solaris has Linux trumped.
I just spent 10 mins ranting in my own post - and you summarise in one line:-(:-)
Incidently, the N1 grid containers are going to be very useful indeed. I can imagine ISP's picking this up as a nice way to offer 'dedicated OS' hosting solutions.
Linux isn't the greatest
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I'm probably going to get my first negative karma from this one but here goes.
I'm a linux developer... and a FreeBSD, Solaris developer. The only 'major' OS I don't code for is Windows (intentionally).
Anyhow, to my point now, I must say the "Elitism" of Linux supporters is sometimes overwhelmingly sick. I've encountered people who refuse to believe that there's anything at all better than Linux, "Linux is great". I'm personally sick of it.
Sun has some great tools and some great developer networks. I don't use them much myself as I simply don't write programs which get down to the levels where OS differences become a major factor.
I for one am greatly looking forward to ZFS and DTRACE. For years I've been asking around in the linux community for something like dtrace, best responses I got was "Why would you want that? Use top" or "Profile your application" (like wtf??). I'm willing to bet that now that Sun as released DTRACE there's going to be a clambering to release a similar thing in linux.
To be fair, linux has also some lovely tools, valgrind is the one major tool which keeps me holding onto linux.... for now.
I think the colours that you see are from light refraction. Due to the size of the components involved on the die it'll tend to refract the light.
Remember, that's one of the big problems of getting smaller than 90nm, the fact that at that wavelength things like glass are rather opaque (hence the need to use quartz).
The chips which appear dull are either using much larger structures or might have some sort of 'protective cover' over them.
This could get outwardly recursive until we find that we're confronted with a parallel universe that another God thought of creating... omg, better stop thinking these thoughts before I vaporise.
There's a saying that I've heard all too often that goes...
"Many people think of the same thing at the same time across the world - it's a matter of who gets it done first".
Time and time again I've seen this happen in the software world, where it's appearance is more noticable all thanks to the speed and expanse of the internet.
So, while it sounds like I'm backing Apple in this one, what I'm really saying is it might not specifically have been plagarism, sometimes it's just a bad coincidence.
Probably they're not fully referencing form vars or such. ie, rather than doing document.someform.foo.value=Z, they're just doing foo.value=Z. This sort of thing failed to work with Firefox between 0.8 and 0.9.x, it now works again in 1.0RC1.
Totally stumped me too, until I saw what was going on in the javascript debugger. Not sure if they did it as some sort of 'security' feature. All I know is that I had to rewrite a lot of javascript code to make things work again for FF (until, as said, the latest version came out).
What I really hate here is that so many people are going to be too busy running around staring at some new torch-carrier while they stampede past already available solutions like this. Excuses can range from "It's not cool enough", "It's not new enough" or "We didn't do that one". Seems to happen a lot in software too.
Hope someone with some cash can pick up this project (assuming it does work well enough, certainly it's a starting point).
My other hobby other than listening to trash on/. is model aircraft - specifically electric powered ones.
Li-Ion batteries have the lowest discharge rate around, superior to NiMH and definately NiCd. Better yet would be Li-Poly but they're still a tad risky for some people's likings (I have videos of model planes bursting into flames due to a bad lipo).
The trouble with Li-Ion/Poly is that they have a comparitavely low draw capacity on demand, especially if they're cold. This is where a lot of people pick up the feeling that Li-based batteries are a poor choice relative to NiMh/Cd. Typically if the battery cannot supply the required current the apparent voltage drops and it seems like the battery is 'flat'. The trick is to keep them warm - not always an option I know.
Incidently, I've had lipo cells have nearly full charge (over 80%) despite having been left after a charge for more than 2 weeks.
Oh, one other last problem with Li based batteries is that if they drop below a specific voltage then technically you're not supposed to try revive them (else things can go boom!). A lot of laptops with Li based batteries suffer to this, people throw out 'dead' packs which actually just were left too long without a charge.
I have a bank run ccard/merchant acceptance interface. About every week I get emails with statements like "Unscheduled down time" or "Delay in payment acceptance" etc. The key difference is that the banks are entirely accountable and the transactions do actually go through ultimately. Furthermore, you have the ability to phone them or visit them personally should you have any issues.
I actually just bought myself a kitten about 6 weeks ago. The place is a mess, my keyboard has even -more- fur in it (aside from my own shedding) and my mouse routinely is found hanging off the edge of my desk when I arrive in the morning (I have a home-office).
This kitten was highly incompatible with the already installed old-blind-dog system. It took over a month of food and luck to get the two systems to cooperate without causing general-insanity faults with the owners.
Despite all that I could never take it back. I tried to take the cat back 24 hours after I bought it but I got about 2km down the road before everything was too blurry from the sudden onrush of water obscuring my vision.
Having also lived in ZA for a few years, the other thing that cracked me up was the way they pronounce 'router'. In ZA, they pronounce it as 'r-oo-ter', as if you were pronouncing 'hooters'. In Australia, 'root' is another term for sex. I personally preferred to pronounce it as 'r-out-er'.
I just took a look at the 'specification' and I think it's a great one.
It's not overly complex, it's backwards compatible and it's easy to implement.
It probably will lack some features which would be nice but at the moment I don't see them being spoken about in the specification (ie, what mode of application for the next frame, OR/AND/XOR/INVERT etc).
I think with it being as simple as it is to create an APNG from existing PNG's, we could see this format take off a lot faster than MNG. Now it's simply a matter of waiting for Firefox/Mozilla/Opera to pick up their end and make use of the APNG format.
Care to explain -why- ? Opinions aren't much use without a bit of an explanation;-)
The last time I used Mozilla mail, by the time I got into the vacinity of 1000 retained emails, things simply became unbearably slow. The sylpheed system on the other hand was so fast that I could hardly believe it.
From a UNIX perspective, I definately prefer the file per email solution, makes doing stuff with your retained emails a lot simpler.
I've been using the Mozilla Calendar for the last few days (strangely conincidental one might think) and I'm definately liking it. I'm using it for tracking a lot of business activities, so it's especially nice how it issues email notices and allows you to repeat things even "once a year".
While there's nothing spectacular about the calendar tool it does do the job and so far it has been running without issue the last 5 days without requiring a restart.
I'm further delighted about this because it means I don't have to walk down the path of Evolution just to get a calendar. One last thing though - when (if ever) will Mozilla mail change away from using.mbx/mailbox files and move to something like what Sylpheed uses (1 file per email).
... attempt to get First Post, but I slacked off until too late:-(
What I'd really like to see is a drug which blocks/absorbs the dopamine before it gets too bad.
However, I can see this being the new ADD type excuse "Oh, Im too dopamine sensitive - I need special exemptions/extentions".
Another thing is - even if we do stop the procrastination, I don't think we'll be any less stressed, as now we'll simply be continuing to take in even _more_ work and end up just as burned out.
At least the girls in the Dodo adverts are pretty:-P
*looks around nervously for wife*
I'll take a look around - I could really do with 1500/256 (or 512 upload), as each time I put out a new release of my software it means another ~200Mb of uploads; rather painful even at 128K.
I'm just up the road a bit - Charters Towers. We're using 512/128 via Dodo *oh the shame!*. Fortunately at least we have no limit on our downloads as we seem to somehow consume ~20Gb/mth (I suspect a lot of that is from my never ending ISO downloads).
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s/of linux/of some linux/ ;-)
Agreed.
>> While Linux may have counterparts to various Solaris features, in terms of maturity, feature set, and performance of these features Solaris has Linux trumped.
:-( :-)
I just spent 10 mins ranting in my own post - and you summarise in one line
Incidently, the N1 grid containers are going to be very useful indeed. I can imagine ISP's picking this up as a nice way to offer 'dedicated OS' hosting solutions.
I'm probably going to get my first negative karma from this one but here goes.
I'm a linux developer... and a FreeBSD, Solaris developer. The only 'major' OS I don't code for is Windows (intentionally).
Anyhow, to my point now, I must say the "Elitism" of Linux supporters is sometimes overwhelmingly sick. I've encountered people who refuse to believe that there's anything at all better than Linux, "Linux is great". I'm personally sick of it.
Sun has some great tools and some great developer networks. I don't use them much myself as I simply don't write programs which get down to the levels where OS differences become a major factor.
I for one am greatly looking forward to ZFS and DTRACE. For years I've been asking around in the linux community for something like dtrace, best responses I got was "Why would you want that? Use top" or "Profile your application" (like wtf??). I'm willing to bet that now that Sun as released DTRACE there's going to be a clambering to release a similar thing in linux.
To be fair, linux has also some lovely tools, valgrind is the one major tool which keeps me holding onto linux.... for now.
PLD.
I think the colours that you see are from light refraction. Due to the size of the components involved on the die it'll tend to refract the light.
Remember, that's one of the big problems of getting smaller than 90nm, the fact that at that wavelength things like glass are rather opaque (hence the need to use quartz).
The chips which appear dull are either using much larger structures or might have some sort of 'protective cover' over them.
PLD.
This could get outwardly recursive until we find that we're confronted with a parallel universe that another God thought of creating... omg, better stop thinking these thoughts before I vaporise.
Aha! thanks, you proved my theory - see my own post saying the same thing just a bit further up.
Damn, I was hoping someone would say the same thing in another post at about the same time. So much for -that- theory :-\
There's a saying that I've heard all too often that goes ...
"Many people think of the same thing at the same time across the world - it's a matter of who gets it done first".
Time and time again I've seen this happen in the software world, where it's appearance is more noticable all thanks to the speed and expanse of the internet.
So, while it sounds like I'm backing Apple in this one, what I'm really saying is it might not specifically have been plagarism, sometimes it's just a bad coincidence.
PLD.
I think this was done years ago by Chrysler... one of their family-mover vans had it as an option.
PLD.
Probably they're not fully referencing form vars or such. ie, rather than doing document.someform.foo.value=Z, they're just doing foo.value=Z. This sort of thing failed to work with Firefox between 0.8 and 0.9.x, it now works again in 1.0RC1.
Totally stumped me too, until I saw what was going on in the javascript debugger. Not sure if they did it as some sort of 'security' feature. All I know is that I had to rewrite a lot of javascript code to make things work again for FF (until, as said, the latest version came out).
PLD.
What I really hate here is that so many people are going to be too busy running around staring at some new torch-carrier while they stampede past already available solutions like this. Excuses can range from "It's not cool enough", "It's not new enough" or "We didn't do that one". Seems to happen a lot in software too.
Hope someone with some cash can pick up this project (assuming it does work well enough, certainly it's a starting point).
PLD.
My other hobby other than listening to trash on /. is model aircraft - specifically electric powered ones.
Li-Ion batteries have the lowest discharge rate around, superior to NiMH and definately NiCd. Better yet would be Li-Poly but they're still a tad risky for some people's likings (I have videos of model planes bursting into flames due to a bad lipo).
The trouble with Li-Ion/Poly is that they have a comparitavely low draw capacity on demand, especially if they're cold. This is where a lot of people pick up the feeling that Li-based batteries are a poor choice relative to NiMh/Cd. Typically if the battery cannot supply the required current the apparent voltage drops and it seems like the battery is 'flat'. The trick is to keep them warm - not always an option I know.
Incidently, I've had lipo cells have nearly full charge (over 80%) despite having been left after a charge for more than 2 weeks.
Oh, one other last problem with Li based batteries is that if they drop below a specific voltage then technically you're not supposed to try revive them (else things can go boom!). A lot of laptops with Li based batteries suffer to this, people throw out 'dead' packs which actually just were left too long without a charge.
PLD.
Humor aside, I have to say, banks do crash.
I have a bank run ccard/merchant acceptance interface. About every week I get emails with statements like "Unscheduled down time" or "Delay in payment acceptance" etc. The key difference is that the banks are entirely accountable and the transactions do actually go through ultimately. Furthermore, you have the ability to phone them or visit them personally should you have any issues.
Again, the key here is accountability.
PLD.
I actually just bought myself a kitten about 6 weeks ago. The place is a mess, my keyboard has even -more- fur in it (aside from my own shedding) and my mouse routinely is found hanging off the edge of my desk when I arrive in the morning (I have a home-office).
8 .j pg
:-D
This kitten was highly incompatible with the already installed old-blind-dog system. It took over a month of food and luck to get the two systems to cooperate without causing general-insanity faults with the owners.
Despite all that I could never take it back. I tried to take the cat back 24 hours after I bought it but I got about 2km down the road before everything was too blurry from the sudden onrush of water obscuring my vision.
http://pldaniels.com/photos/2004092001/mpic0000
These things are dangerously addictive
Having also lived in ZA for a few years, the other thing that cracked me up was the way they pronounce 'router'. In ZA, they pronounce it as 'r-oo-ter', as if you were pronouncing 'hooters'. In Australia, 'root' is another term for sex. I personally preferred to pronounce it as 'r-out-er'.
PLD.
Need any helpers?
;-).
I missed my chance on the original PNG format spec, due to being a bit young and everything I was getting was via FIDO net (BBS'ing
PLD.
I just took a look at the 'specification' and I think it's a great one.
It's not overly complex, it's backwards compatible and it's easy to implement.
It probably will lack some features which would be nice but at the moment I don't see them being spoken about in the specification (ie, what mode of application for the next frame, OR/AND/XOR/INVERT etc).
I think with it being as simple as it is to create an APNG from existing PNG's, we could see this format take off a lot faster than MNG. Now it's simply a matter of waiting for Firefox/Mozilla/Opera to pick up their end and make use of the APNG format.
PLD.
Are you freaking kidding me?
Sims2 was due out in _MARCH_ originally.
Not only that, it was supposed to have precursor tools/applications out in Nov 2003.
The project in fact is about 6 months overdue.
PLD.
*laugh*. Well, definately the squares are filling up from the 13th... Was a good day to start new things (Friday 13th ;-)
PLD.
*Shameless plug*
If you want something to extract your files; try http://www.pldaniels.com/ripmime
PLD.
Care to explain -why- ? Opinions aren't much use without a bit of an explanation ;-)
The last time I used Mozilla mail, by the time I got into the vacinity of 1000 retained emails, things simply became unbearably slow. The sylpheed system on the other hand was so fast that I could hardly believe it.
From a UNIX perspective, I definately prefer the file per email solution, makes doing stuff with your retained emails a lot simpler.
I've been using the Mozilla Calendar for the last few days (strangely conincidental one might think) and I'm definately liking it. I'm using it for tracking a lot of business activities, so it's especially nice how it issues email notices and allows you to repeat things even "once a year".
.mbx/mailbox files and move to something like what Sylpheed uses (1 file per email).
While there's nothing spectacular about the calendar tool it does do the job and so far it has been running without issue the last 5 days without requiring a restart.
I'm further delighted about this because it means I don't have to walk down the path of Evolution just to get a calendar. One last thing though - when (if ever) will Mozilla mail change away from using
PLD.
... attempt to get First Post, but I slacked off until too late :-(
What I'd really like to see is a drug which blocks/absorbs the dopamine before it gets too bad.
However, I can see this being the new ADD type excuse "Oh, Im too dopamine sensitive - I need special exemptions/extentions".
Another thing is - even if we do stop the procrastination, I don't think we'll be any less stressed, as now we'll simply be continuing to take in even _more_ work and end up just as burned out.
At least the girls in the Dodo adverts are pretty :-P
*looks around nervously for wife*
I'll take a look around - I could really do with 1500/256 (or 512 upload), as each time I put out a new release of my software it means another ~200Mb of uploads; rather painful even at 128K.
PLD
I'm just up the road a bit - Charters Towers. We're using 512/128 via Dodo *oh the shame!*. Fortunately at least we have no limit on our downloads as we seem to somehow consume ~20Gb/mth (I suspect a lot of that is from my never ending ISO downloads).
PLD.