Also don't assume it was the OS that died, it is very posible that the computers were up, just not responding to the client software or otherwise screwed up. I would guess that it was thier own custom software that died.
Well you have a statistical skewing here. The "interesting" things are not the things that huge numbers of people are interested in. Anything thats on that list has HUGE numbers of people looking at it. The strange things that we find interesting tend to only appeal to a much smaller group of people. Its just that for each of those smaller things, there exists a group of people.
Depends why you need a hospital. Ok if you are bleeding you dial 911, but if you need say a gastroenterologist, google may be a good place to start.
I've been spending way to much time in at the Haddasah hospital at Ein Karrem (Jerusalem) over the last few months due to some health issues my wife is having. At no point did we go there by any method but bus or taxi.
Somehow I don't think SkyOS would be the next big thing even without linux/bsd. The problem is not Linux, its Microsoft. While windows can be a right pain in the but, is SkyOS so much better to warrent change? I don't think it could be. The problem is for a non free software OS to take of it would have to be supported by a company that can out microsoft microsoft. Even IBM with its huge resources wasn't able to do that with OS/2.
Some of us still regard the sabbeth (IE Saturday) as the last day of the week. In Hebrew the days are just numberd for the 6 days of the week and Shabbat is the 7th.
yup, on the other hand it often means that things can be gotten done quickly by people who need them. I used to work in cleaning this type of thing up. It was nice work for a while to be honest.
The killer feature for much of the world is language support. If you speak English this is not a big deal but for smaller languages (like say Hebrew) this is a big deal. If MS decides to stop translating their products into Hebrew then those of us in Israel who need it are really screwed. This ofcourse applies to many different countries and many different languages. Right now MS offices supports Hebrew on Windows, but not on the Mac.
But if you need to word process in a given language and Word does not support it well, then its useless for you.
a few jobs back Access kept me quite busy. People at our company would write stuff in Access and when they would out grow what it could do they would get us to make it into a web application.
It may be hard to get your own copy of the journal. But if there is a university near you and you want a specific article call the library. In many cases you can walk right in and make a photo copy. I know when I was at Brandeis anyone could walk into the library and make a copy of stuff. I have had good luck going into the library at Hebrew U's campus at Givat Ram in Jerusalem and getting access to stuff. I'm not a student there but I have had no problem getting to look at books and journals, and getting help from the library staff.
I would guess that the "Do not tell" restriction is on information specifics. To say that you recieved a supoena requestion information on IP addres X in this time window could get you in deap shit. Saying that you have been given a few Subpoenas over the last 6 months is probably no big deal.
Well yes, but as its *MY* code I should have some say in the matter too. I'm not saying that the BSD licence is evil or even without merit, just that I choose to use the GPL, for well thought out reasons.
First of all a few misconceptions, the GPL only kicks in in this context if you take code someone else wrote and modify it and want to distribute those changes. If you just want to keep them for yourself you are ok.
As a developer I would rather release my stuff under the GPL, if I release under BSD/MIT type licence there is nothing to prevent someone else from taking my code and changing it and not giving it back to me. Now anyone can download my code and use it for what they like. But they can't sell it without returning the source.
Now with a BSD licence it is true the various people could fork closed versions of software, the question is, is this a good thing? Did having 25 different versions of Unix, none of which worked the same was as was the case 15 years ago good for unix? I would think not. The number of Unix like OS's is down to about 4 at this point (Linux,BSD including OS/X, Solaris and maybe AIX) at least those are the only 4 that matter.
In sort the bug you have pointed out is to most people really a feature
Problem is that in this case the code for the server is only a small part of the application. Lets say you had thesource code to an Amazon or an Ebay, without the customers and the data and in the case of Amazon the warehouse full of real world goods it won't do you much good.
The Philippines biggest export is people, young women (mostly) who go to other countries to work as household help etc. WE have a lot of them here in Israel and from what I have heard the gulf states do too.
I've never bought anything via iPhoto, for one thing I'm pretty sure they don't ship to Israel, or if they do it would cost way to much. I like it for building web pages and video. I will admit that I'm not much of a photographer, just sort of point and shoot. My wife is the photographer of the family.
The US Secret Service is charged with protecting the president of the United states. (Amoung other things) They take that very seriously. There are many threats against the president every day, they track them all down. 99.9% of them are some bozo spouting hot air, but the other 0.1% of them are not. If you state in a public place (which live journal is) a wish for the president to die, the US Secret service may well look into it. You have no expectation of privacy on a livejournal post (or one on slashdot for that matter). And threatening the life of the President is a crime. For that matter threatening the life of anyone is a crime in the US, just for the most part at a lower level. As for how they found her journal, for all we know they used a very cleaver google query. It would be quite easy to query google every day for pages that have been added to the index with the correct keywords and then have an agent go look at each of them.
What don't you like about iPhoto? I think its great. Is there something on linux that will work as well? Specificly to take a bunch of pictures and spit out html from them? I have both Linux and OS X on my desktop and for most desktop stuff will take the mac any day.
As PHP books go, I have "Programing PHP", "Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL", as well as the "PHP cookbook" If I had to pick one of the 3 it would be the PHP cookbook, its wonderful. It has saved me several hours worth of work. Thought the other 2 are also great as well. The MySQL cookbook is also great.
I have 2 mac os 10.3 computers both work quite well with a samba server. I have netatalk for a few older macs that we keep in the house so I'm looking forward to this new release.
You would have to make it simple to manufacture. I was thinking what you would want is a motherboard with "everything" on it. Ethernet, sound, USB, video card, IDE, Modem. To go from board to computer you add some ram, a hard drive and put it in a case. You probably would want a somewhat custom case for easy access as well. If I was trying to make a $100-150 computer I would also make it a motherboard with no slots, just what was on the motherboard. I figure many many users just want the real basics and thats it. I might even put 128mb of ram on the mother board.
The idea here is that by putting everything on the motherboard you reduce your cost to put the whole computer together.
Now many of the slashdot crowd would not want such a fixed computer for their main workstation, but it would be an ideal system to give your kids etc. Or for a massive install.
I recall doing word processing on a Mac SE with 1mb of ram and a 8mhz 68000. It worked quite well. Its just that the wordprocessors (and everything else) have gotten massivly bloated of late.
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Also don't assume it was the OS that died, it is very posible that the computers were up, just not responding to the client software or otherwise screwed up. I would guess that it was thier own custom software that died.
Well you have a statistical skewing here. The "interesting" things are not the things that huge numbers of people are interested in. Anything thats on that list has HUGE numbers of people looking at it. The strange things that we find interesting tend to only appeal to a much smaller group of people. Its just that for each of those smaller things, there exists a group of people.
Depends why you need a hospital. Ok if you are bleeding you dial 911, but if you need say a gastroenterologist, google may be a good place to start.
I've been spending way to much time in at the Haddasah hospital at Ein Karrem (Jerusalem) over the last few months due to some health issues my wife is having. At no point did we go there by any method but bus or taxi.
Somehow I don't think SkyOS would be the next big thing even without linux/bsd. The problem is not Linux, its Microsoft. While windows can be a right pain in the but, is SkyOS so much better to warrent change? I don't think it could be. The problem is for a non free software OS to take of it would have to be supported by a company that can out microsoft microsoft. Even IBM with its huge resources wasn't able to do that with OS/2.
Some of us still regard the sabbeth (IE Saturday) as the last day of the week. In Hebrew the days are just numberd for the 6 days of the week and Shabbat is the 7th.
yup, on the other hand it often means that things can be gotten done quickly by people who need them. I used to work in cleaning this type of thing up. It was nice work for a while to be honest.
The killer feature for much of the world is language support. If you speak English this is not a big deal but for smaller languages (like say Hebrew) this is a big deal. If MS decides to stop translating their products into Hebrew then those of us in Israel who need it are really screwed. This ofcourse applies to many different countries and many different languages. Right now MS offices supports Hebrew on Windows, but not on the Mac.
But if you need to word process in a given language and Word does not support it well, then its useless for you.
a few jobs back Access kept me quite busy. People at our company would write stuff in Access and when they would out grow what it could do they would get us to make it into a web application.
It may be hard to get your own copy of the journal. But if there is a university near you and you want a specific article call the library. In many cases you can walk right in and make a photo copy. I know when I was at Brandeis anyone could walk into the library and make a copy of stuff. I have had good luck going into the library at Hebrew U's campus at Givat Ram in Jerusalem and getting access to stuff. I'm not a student there but I have had no problem getting to look at books and journals, and getting help from the library staff.
I would guess that the "Do not tell" restriction is on information specifics. To say that you recieved a supoena requestion information on IP addres X in this time window could get you in deap shit. Saying that you have been given a few Subpoenas over the last 6 months is probably no big deal.
IANAL
No you don't destroy it, they will reconstruct it. What you do is sell it on e-bay!
Well yes, but as its *MY* code I should have some say in the matter too. I'm not saying that the BSD licence is evil or even without merit, just that I choose to use the GPL, for well thought out reasons.
First of all a few misconceptions, the GPL only kicks in in this context if you take code someone else wrote and modify it and want to distribute those changes. If you just want to keep them for yourself you are ok.
As a developer I would rather release my stuff under the GPL, if I release under BSD/MIT type licence there is nothing to prevent someone else from taking my code and changing it and not giving it back to me. Now anyone can download my code and use it for what they like. But they can't sell it without returning the source.
Now with a BSD licence it is true the various people could fork closed versions of software, the question is, is this a good thing? Did having 25 different versions of Unix, none of which worked the same was as was the case 15 years ago good for unix? I would think not. The number of Unix like OS's is down to about 4 at this point (Linux,BSD including OS/X, Solaris and maybe AIX) at least those are the only 4 that matter.
In sort the bug you have pointed out is to most people really a feature
Problem is that in this case the code for the server is only a small part of the application. Lets say you had thesource code to an Amazon or an Ebay, without the customers and the data and in the case of Amazon the warehouse full of real world goods it won't do you much good.
The Philippines biggest export is people, young women (mostly) who go to other countries to work as household help etc. WE have a lot of them here in Israel and from what I have heard the gulf states do too.
My number is 1372. Which is definlty less than 10k
On the more technical end of it, I wonder what their server farm looks like on this one. They are probably going to get slashdoted in a massive way.
I've never bought anything via iPhoto, for one thing I'm pretty sure they don't ship to Israel, or if they do it would cost way to much. I like it for building web pages and video. I will admit that I'm not much of a photographer, just sort of point and shoot. My wife is the photographer of the family.
The US Secret Service is charged with protecting the president of the United states. (Amoung other things) They take that very seriously. There are many threats against the president every day, they track them all down. 99.9% of them are some bozo spouting hot air, but the other 0.1% of them are not. If you state in a public place (which live journal is) a wish for the president to die, the US Secret service may well look into it. You have no expectation of privacy on a livejournal post (or one on slashdot for that matter). And threatening the life of the President is a crime. For that matter threatening the life of anyone is a crime in the US, just for the most part at a lower level. As for how they found her journal, for all we know they used a very cleaver google query. It would be quite easy to query google every day for pages that have been added to the index with the correct keywords and then have an agent go look at each of them.
What don't you like about iPhoto? I think its great. Is there something on linux that will work as well? Specificly to take a bunch of pictures and spit out html from them? I have both Linux and OS X on my desktop and for most desktop stuff will take the mac any day.
As PHP books go, I have "Programing PHP", "Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL", as well as the "PHP cookbook" If I had to pick one of the 3 it would be the PHP cookbook, its wonderful. It has saved me several hours worth of work. Thought the other 2 are also great as well. The MySQL cookbook is also great.
I have 2 mac os 10.3 computers both work quite well with a samba server. I have netatalk for a few older macs that we keep in the house so I'm looking forward to this new release.
You would have to make it simple to manufacture. I was thinking what you would want is a motherboard with "everything" on it. Ethernet, sound, USB, video card, IDE, Modem. To go from board to computer you add some ram, a hard drive and put it in a case. You probably would want a somewhat custom case for easy access as well. If I was trying to make a $100-150 computer I would also make it a motherboard with no slots, just what was on the motherboard. I figure many many users just want the real basics and thats it. I might even put 128mb of ram on the mother board.
The idea here is that by putting everything on the motherboard you reduce your cost to put the whole computer together.
Now many of the slashdot crowd would not want such a fixed computer for their main workstation, but it would be an ideal system to give your kids etc. Or for a massive install.
I recall doing word processing on a Mac SE with 1mb of ram and a 8mhz 68000. It worked quite well. Its just that the wordprocessors (and everything else) have gotten massivly bloated of late.
I would be happy to work up a quote on this for you. Please feel free to email me what what you need.