From now on, when you post a "new Kernel release" story, please include a link to the changelog. It's always a link on the homepage of kernel.org. Do not encourage karma whores.
I found it. Zero Wing is an arcade game circa 1989 with poorly translated "Engrish" in its opening sequence. There's actually a web site devoted to the "all your base are belong to us" quote, with videos and everything. Amazing.
you are the one who looks like the idiot. Sitting around waiting to complain about a humorous grammar check on a news for nerds site. This is not a news for complainers site. Or the Law Review. Do you read newspapers? Look how much gets complained about there. Does it matter? No. Why? Content is king. Start your own site. Call it complainerz.org and repost/. replies with all your petty complaints.
When I use Windows, I never feel the need to switch to Linux to do something I find that I can't do properly in Window. The reverse isn't true. So the question is, why use Linux in the first place?
You shouldn't. Use the tool that's right for you. Just don't keep your eyes closed to new developments, there may be a reason to switch in the future.
Personally, I have a PC that I'm using as a cable router, dhcp server and file server for my windows boxes at home, firewall, web server, mail server, streaming music server. I'm running several open source programs (webmail, web "portal", image gallery) backed by an open-source database. This all comes "out of the box" on my linux distribution. For free. This makes it much easier and cheaper for me to use linux. YMMV.
Which only demonstrates your incompetence at administering your NT web servers.
Yep. And Microsoft support is incompetent at administering our NT web servers too. In fact, it is impossible to be competent administering NT web servers.
It sure seems easier to be a competent Sun administrator. None of the troubleshooting why services suddenly stop responding.
I've got two servers at work. One is running NT 4, and I never mess with it. It's a PDC for a small network. I've been ignoring it for months, and it's still going.
My other server is running W2K. It's a domain controller, DNS server, SQL server, and IIS server. I hammer on it every day. It's current uptime is about 52 days. So far this semester it's uptime is 99.995% and counting
You're making generalizations based on these two experiences? As a developer working closely with admins of 100's of NT boxes, I can tell you that your experiences may be typical for small servers running all MS software and being "hammered" on by one person. Put, say, Sybase or Oracle on them. Allow 100,000 people to hammer on them. You'll have to reboot them almost daily, or they will eventually DoS themselves. Blame Sybase and Oracle, you say? Nah, Sybase and Oracle run rock-solid on Sun. There are weaknesses in the OS that allows these things to happen.
But to say "oog, I reboot windows every day" or "oog, blue screen!!!!" just shows ignorance and the inability to think objectively for yourself.
We reboot our public Web servers every day. We have to, or services will mysteriously stop, or stop responding, among other things. Yes, we've worked with MS and the other vendors involved ad nauseum. I don't think this is ignorance or the inability to think objectively.
But aren't Bucky balls are small enough that their position is non-deterministic?
Boy, I'd hate to be a Bucky.:-)
I think you'd still need to put them in a structure of some sort. How else would you be certain you're reading from the same bucky ball that you wrote to?
The fact that these problems are barely considered tells me that we're a long way off from seeing quantum memory/computers.
With all the discussion of potential quantum "bits", I never see a discussion of how exactly they could be made addressable. It's not like they can all be made to stay in the same place, unless you isolate them in some sort of larger structure, which would defeat the purpose of using them in the first place.
Here's a slightly easier way to accomplish nearly the same thing:
While you're at Home Depot/Lowes/Etc, get two of the "undercounter" style power strips. The ones that are like 4 feet long with widely spaced outlets. Run one strip from the power-protected outlets of your UPS and the other from surge-only outlets. Then you can plug all your equipment in wherever you want, always having a choice whether you want power backup or not. I would suggest limiting the UPS strip to only essential items (don't plug in your laser printer or your desk lamp).
-bp
Ektron'seWebEditPro is a popular add-on to Content Management systems for WYSIWYG HTML editing. It has a few really nice features, such as the ability to create well-formed XML (including XHTML). Works in IE and NS, and Ektron has done a good job of making it easy for Webmasters and System Integrators to include it in their apps. PDF data sheet is here.
CPAN is what's great about Perl. But I was talking about Mason specifically. Mason allows you to create components that you can call from your web pages. There is a potential to have a wonderful library of pre-built Mason components to do various web things. The one good example is the clicktrail widget that automatically builds a hyperlinked "you-are-here" path. I wish there were more good examples.
I looked into using Mason a while back for a site. It's a good framework to build web apps. However, you basically have to build stuff from scratch. Although there are a couple of good reference sites using Mason, there are no apps! Not really much in the way of sample code you can take and run with. With something like Zope, you have lots of things built on it (Squishdot, etc) and a library of other things. Lots of stuff available for PHP as well. Mason's list is relatively weak. Perhaps this will improve over time. I hope so, but until then I think Mason is not the easy route!
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I was surprised to see a full-page Linuxgruven ad in the latest issue of Linux Magazine. Are they still running ads?
You got the command wrong. It's
Thank you.
I like the URL obfuscation. Can you explain it please?
I saw the video. I hardly consider random musing by idiots funny and enlightening.
I respectfully disagree. We ought to improve all weak links, one at a time. If you pass on one, it will be the weak link, eventually.
No, they're just using black light.
:-)
...One-Click shopping!
the DMCA would never figure that one out!
I found it. Zero Wing is an arcade game circa 1989 with poorly translated "Engrish" in its opening sequence. There's actually a web site devoted to the "all your base are belong to us" quote, with videos and everything. Amazing.
I was wondering why I keep seeing the phrase "All your x are belong to us". Can anyone tell me what the original phrase is? and where it came from?
...from all the royalties from 'Kasparov 3D Chess 2004' for the PS3.
you are the one who looks like the idiot. Sitting around waiting to complain about a humorous grammar check on a news for nerds site. This is not a news for complainers site. Or the Law Review. Do you read newspapers? Look how much gets complained about there. Does it matter? No. Why? Content is king. Start your own site. Call it complainerz.org and repost /. replies with all your petty complaints.
You shouldn't. Use the tool that's right for you. Just don't keep your eyes closed to new developments, there may be a reason to switch in the future.
Personally, I have a PC that I'm using as a cable router, dhcp server and file server for my windows boxes at home, firewall, web server, mail server, streaming music server. I'm running several open source programs (webmail, web "portal", image gallery) backed by an open-source database. This all comes "out of the box" on my linux distribution. For free. This makes it much easier and cheaper for me to use linux. YMMV.
Yep. And Microsoft support is incompetent at administering our NT web servers too. In fact, it is impossible to be competent administering NT web servers.
It sure seems easier to be a competent Sun administrator. None of the troubleshooting why services suddenly stop responding.
You're making generalizations based on these two experiences? As a developer working closely with admins of 100's of NT boxes, I can tell you that your experiences may be typical for small servers running all MS software and being "hammered" on by one person. Put, say, Sybase or Oracle on them. Allow 100,000 people to hammer on them. You'll have to reboot them almost daily, or they will eventually DoS themselves. Blame Sybase and Oracle, you say? Nah, Sybase and Oracle run rock-solid on Sun. There are weaknesses in the OS that allows these things to happen.
But to say "oog, I reboot windows every day" or "oog, blue screen!!!!" just shows ignorance and the inability to think objectively for yourself.
We reboot our public Web servers every day. We have to, or services will mysteriously stop, or stop responding, among other things. Yes, we've worked with MS and the other vendors involved ad nauseum. I don't think this is ignorance or the inability to think objectively.
-bp
Boy, I'd hate to be a Bucky. :-)
I think you'd still need to put them in a structure of some sort. How else would you be certain you're reading from the same bucky ball that you wrote to?
The fact that these problems are barely considered tells me that we're a long way off from seeing quantum memory/computers.
With all the discussion of potential quantum "bits", I never see a discussion of how exactly they could be made addressable. It's not like they can all be made to stay in the same place, unless you isolate them in some sort of larger structure, which would defeat the purpose of using them in the first place.
Here's a slightly easier way to accomplish nearly the same thing: While you're at Home Depot/Lowes/Etc, get two of the "undercounter" style power strips. The ones that are like 4 feet long with widely spaced outlets. Run one strip from the power-protected outlets of your UPS and the other from surge-only outlets. Then you can plug all your equipment in wherever you want, always having a choice whether you want power backup or not. I would suggest limiting the UPS strip to only essential items (don't plug in your laser printer or your desk lamp). -bp
Hmm... That's not what I saw at all. What browser were you using? On IE 5.5 it was truly WYSIWYG.
Oops, forgot to mention its main drawback: it's Windoze-only.
Ektron's eWebEditPro is a popular add-on to Content Management systems for WYSIWYG HTML editing. It has a few really nice features, such as the ability to create well-formed XML (including XHTML). Works in IE and NS, and Ektron has done a good job of making it easy for Webmasters and System Integrators to include it in their apps. PDF data sheet is here.
CPAN is what's great about Perl. But I was talking about Mason specifically. Mason allows you to create components that you can call from your web pages. There is a potential to have a wonderful library of pre-built Mason components to do various web things. The one good example is the clicktrail widget that automatically builds a hyperlinked "you-are-here" path. I wish there were more good examples.
-bp
Just don't do it. It's bad practice to use suidperl. Mason doesn't require it.