I'll assume this was added after you posted this, otherwise please RTFA:
"At about 14:15 PST some circuit breakers were tripped in the colocation facility where our servers are housed. Although the facility has a well-stocked generator, this took out power to places inside the facility, including the switch that connects us to the network and all our servers. (Yes, even the machines with dual power supplies -- both circuits got shut off.)"
I'm fairly certain that they designed it for 16x9. I don't know if they cut the top, or expand the edge, to make it 16x9, but either way it looks "better" that way.
As a note, My machine was RH 8.0, and I went 8.0->9.0->FC1 by doing exactly what you said.
However, off the list I was told that due to changes in glibc, you could NOT do this, and going from FC1->FC2 via yum or apt-get would fail on first reboot >90% of instances.
If the people who develop the distribution don't feel safe about doing it, then neither do I, even if it's worked for some people.
http://www.serverbeach.com is where it is, but any other 100-200$/month dedicated linux server sellers is the same. I do offsite backups, and so if there's a hardware fault they simply load me up a new machine and I restore my latest backup.
This is a live, on the internet server for about 30 people (email/web/etc), not just some old box shoved in my closet that I am playing with linux on. I need it hooked to a reliable data line (not my "changes IP once every 15 days" ADSL line) and a dedicated reseller is my best option.
Even if I wanted to do colo, it'd be MUCH more expensive, especially if I went somewhere local (australia).
Allow me to add that I found my own migration path from Fedora Core 1. Funny enough, it DOES start with "d" and ends with "ebian," and I've been on it ever since the responces to that email thread.
The official upgrade proceedure for Fedora: -put in the new CD -boot to CD -run installer in upgrade mode
That totally screws those of us with headless servers in datacenter. Someone will reply that you can use yum/apt-get and just update your sources, but I was told SPECIFICALLY not to do that BY FEDORA DEVELOPERS. I was informed that going from FC1 to 2 via apt or yum WOULD break things, and that my only option was to go onto fedora-legacy once FC1 was phazed out.
Nice one, jerks.
See this thread for details: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-l ist/2004-M ay/msg03201.html
You ARE correct that you have to sign up for the "International plan" to use it from outside the US.
However, it is the same $19.95 price. The limitation is that you are capped at 1000 free minutes instead of unlimited free minutes.
They DO have "freedom unlimited" plans, which allow you unlimited calls **TO** Asia/Europe/etc for 49.95 a month. That's plans that you use if you call Asia or eurpoe a ton, enough to go OVER 50$ a month at 5 cents a minute, though, not to call FROM Asia/europe.
Had you written an xchat/mirc/etc plugin to auto-launch "gin" on playsite and join the game with john, then yes, it would be!
However, didn't gamespy (the original, non-sucky one) do this with ICQ LONG ago? I would launch a game in gamespy, and it would auto-set my ICQ status to "away" with a message of "playing quake2 on 239.483.25.23:33433, click __HERE__ if you have gamespy".
It would make a gamespy:// link, and if you clicked on it and had gamespy installed it would launch the correct game and auto-join you to the correct server to play with me.
Now, it was an integration, not a single product, which may be the difference (or maybe not?), but what you're talking about is like claiming postal mail as prior art for the telephone. Yes they both let you communicate, but...
I know this is likely part of the question, but define unix, and what we CAN solve by fixing "unix"?
Does unix include all of the programs as well, or only the posix specification and other bits and pieces?
Is this from a system administration, a "complete os", a end user, a server, a.... standpoint?
Then again, maybe that IS the answer to the question. The problem with unix is "what IS unix?"
I mean, hell, dictionary.com has it as http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=unix " A trademark used for a computer disk operating system.". It also has the fact that it's a multiuser timesharing OS, but MANY os's do that, so if the only thing defining an OS as unix is that it's timesharing and multiuser, then windows XP is unix!!
Anyways, if I had to answer, I'd say the biggest problem with unix is that, due to its roots in academia, there is way too much NIH syndrome. Every unix has a different way of managing packages, different slight idioms around file system layout, etc. Stuff that DOES NOT matter to the end running of the system, but is different for no good reason.
Choosing a unix should be about choosing a platform (hardware/etc), which kernel and userland you trust/want, and so-on. Where the default home directories are stored should not even come into it.
If you build anything from source on any RPM based box, CREATE AN RPM FOR THAT INSTALL. It is VERY easy to do if you take 30 minutes to figure out how to write a spec file.
Then ALL the files in that installer are referenced in the final RPM, and to remove all the stuff you simply remove it using the rpm tool.
On debian it's much the same but with a deb instead of an rpm.
To install a deb file, just do "dpkg -i filename". Seems a lot like rpm, doesn't it.
I am not an itunes user, but I can see its appeal:
1. INSTANT gratification. You want it now, you've got it now. 2. Granularity. You paid 100$, but what if you only wanted those CDs for 40 total songs? In your example, you're buying what I'd call "specialty" CDs and don't follow the traditional model. Most people want a CD for 1-3 songs, which raises your price to about a buck a song, if not more (for the average person buying 30 cds for 100$) 3. Preview. Could you LEGALLY listen to clips of songs off of those 30 cds before buying them? 4. Plays on your IPOD/whatever. It'll take you at least 2-3 hours to rip all those cds if you're just sitting at the computer ripping.
Stuff like ebay, used music stores, hell even a NEW cd off amazon.com is great for expanding your CD collection when you know what you want already, but that's not the itunes use case.
But really, if you MEAN shit, then how is spelling it any different politeness wise?
It's like I've never understood people who say "fark" instead of fuck, etc. They THINK fuck, and MEAN fuck, so doesn't that automatically give the word "fark" in that useage the exact same connotation as fuck, and thus is no longer "nicer"?
NO NO NO NO. If jabber WAS the defacto standard, and AOL was running a jabber server, the SAME THING could have happened.
LOTS of people use AOL, and many of them would have jabberaccounts with aim.com. If the same idiot sysadmin worked there, and deleted all these account, the same thing would have happened.
Email is "open," and I'd guess you could sum up >20% of active internet users with hotmail, gmail, and aol.com.
THE PROTOCOL, AND ITS OPEN OR CLOSEDNESS, DOES NOT ENTER INTO IT.
Note: I use jabber, and run my own server. Everyone in my family is jabber-only, because we got them onto it (including my >80 year old grandmother, so it meets the "parents" test by a mile and a half). I wish everyone was jabber-only.
It wasn't an automatic response. He had a specific example of information he already knew that he was looking for as a test.
Were he actually researching something, then it'd obviously be silly to expect him to contribute, as if he knew, why would he be researching it?
I also didn't say anything close to what you paraphrased. I didn't say he shouldn't complain, I said he shouldn't JUST complain.
To use another repliers example, it'd be like if I had already implimented (for example) file transfers in AIM, then tested a new open source AIM client and complained that file transfers didn't work right.
Please apply some critical reasoning before automatically replying to what you call an automatic reply.
No, these are small "NES on a chip" devices which look like an N64 control and come loaded with 256 pirated NES games. Have you seen those atari packs with 10 games atari has begun selling in gamestop/etc? It's like those except not put out by the person who own the rights.
These things can serve NO purpose other than playing pirated nintendo games. You cannot load your own code on it, you can't use it as a regular controller, etc. No two ways about it.
Because it's meant to be used by programs that do processing on the data, not simply aggregators.
By using SOAP, I can use php/java/c++ and simply bind to their services isntead of having to roll my own weather-xml->object (or hashtable, or whatever) converter.
This is not for you to just hit with your browser/wget/whatever to stick weather on your webpage (although you can do that, it's easy if you post the right data), it's to allow you to write your own application that does whatever it wants with the data in an easy manner.
It's not flat xml files based on city as per your example because that wouldn't make any sense. If you read through their api's there's a lot of data you can get based on long/lat or weather station id or........
Usually a game sound is mono, and the sound engine renders it's position using some 3d sound API. Except for a cutscene, you'd never use a surround encoded sound.
While you could "cheat" using this and have, say, 16 mp3s of a gunshot from 16 radials around the listener, I still don't see it as being that helpful.
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I'll assume this was added after you posted this, otherwise please RTFA:
"At about 14:15 PST some circuit breakers were tripped in the colocation facility where our servers are housed. Although the facility has a well-stocked generator, this took out power to places inside the facility, including the switch that connects us to the network and all our servers. (Yes, even the machines with dual power supplies -- both circuits got shut off.)"
I'm fairly certain that they designed it for 16x9. I don't know if they cut the top, or expand the edge, to make it 16x9, but either way it looks "better" that way.
That still requires plugging in a CD and rebooting the box, does it not?
That fixes nothing if you have no physical access to the box. This is not an issue with debian.
As a note, My machine was RH 8.0, and I went 8.0->9.0->FC1 by doing exactly what you said.
However, off the list I was told that due to changes in glibc, you could NOT do this, and going from FC1->FC2 via yum or apt-get would fail on first reboot >90% of instances.
If the people who develop the distribution don't feel safe about doing it, then neither do I, even if it's worked for some people.
http://www.serverbeach.com is where it is, but any other 100-200$/month dedicated linux server sellers is the same. I do offsite backups, and so if there's a hardware fault they simply load me up a new machine and I restore my latest backup.
This is a live, on the internet server for about 30 people (email/web/etc), not just some old box shoved in my closet that I am playing with linux on. I need it hooked to a reliable data line (not my "changes IP once every 15 days" ADSL line) and a dedicated reseller is my best option.
Even if I wanted to do colo, it'd be MUCH more expensive, especially if I went somewhere local (australia).
Allow me to add that I found my own migration path from Fedora Core 1. Funny enough, it DOES start with "d" and ends with "ebian," and I've been on it ever since the responces to that email thread.
The official upgrade proceedure for Fedora:
l ist/2004-M ay/msg03201.html
-put in the new CD
-boot to CD
-run installer in upgrade mode
That totally screws those of us with headless servers in datacenter. Someone will reply that you can use yum/apt-get and just update your sources, but I was told SPECIFICALLY not to do that BY FEDORA DEVELOPERS. I was informed that going from FC1 to 2 via apt or yum WOULD break things, and that my only option was to go onto fedora-legacy once FC1 was phazed out.
Nice one, jerks.
See this thread for details:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-
Are you talking about the self checkout lines, or actual checkout devices in the shopping carts as this article is talking about?
I've seen the self checkouts everywhere, but never ones that are wireless and on the cart, letting you check out AS you shop.
You are correct, but also incorrect...
You ARE correct that you have to sign up for the "International plan" to use it from outside the US.
However, it is the same $19.95 price. The limitation is that you are capped at 1000 free minutes instead of unlimited free minutes.
They DO have "freedom unlimited" plans, which allow you unlimited calls **TO** Asia/Europe/etc for 49.95 a month. That's plans that you use if you call Asia or eurpoe a ton, enough to go OVER 50$ a month at 5 cents a minute, though, not to call FROM Asia/europe.
Had you written an xchat/mirc/etc plugin to auto-launch "gin" on playsite and join the game with john, then yes, it would be!
However, didn't gamespy (the original, non-sucky one) do this with ICQ LONG ago? I would launch a game in gamespy, and it would auto-set my ICQ status to "away" with a message of "playing quake2 on 239.483.25.23:33433, click __HERE__ if you have gamespy".
It would make a gamespy:// link, and if you clicked on it and had gamespy installed it would launch the correct game and auto-join you to the correct server to play with me.
Now, it was an integration, not a single product, which may be the difference (or maybe not?), but what you're talking about is like claiming postal mail as prior art for the telephone. Yes they both let you communicate, but...
29$ is for 500 megs, then you're charged up to around 70$, then throttled down to 64kbps. You have it better.
I pay 89$ for 30gigs at 1.5/256, which is par for course in australian broadband.
It's too bad they don't sell a sense of humor on the apple store for $15.
Yes, I can write a firefox extension that will make your system unbootable if you chmod 777 all of your filesystem. It would be very easy.
For how long though? 3 months? 1 year? 2 years?
I'm a testing user myself (even on my servers, which are non-mission-critical friend-and-family web server).
I know this is likely part of the question, but define unix, and what we CAN solve by fixing "unix"?
.... standpoint?
Does unix include all of the programs as well, or only the posix specification and other bits and pieces?
Is this from a system administration, a "complete os", a end user, a server, a
Then again, maybe that IS the answer to the question. The problem with unix is "what IS unix?"
I mean, hell, dictionary.com has it as http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=unix " A trademark used for a computer disk operating system.". It also has the fact that it's a multiuser timesharing OS, but MANY os's do that, so if the only thing defining an OS as unix is that it's timesharing and multiuser, then windows XP is unix!!
Anyways, if I had to answer, I'd say the biggest problem with unix is that, due to its roots in academia, there is way too much NIH syndrome. Every unix has a different way of managing packages, different slight idioms around file system layout, etc. Stuff that DOES NOT matter to the end running of the system, but is different for no good reason.
Choosing a unix should be about choosing a platform (hardware/etc), which kernel and userland you trust/want, and so-on. Where the default home directories are stored should not even come into it.
If you build anything from source on any RPM based box, CREATE AN RPM FOR THAT INSTALL. It is VERY easy to do if you take 30 minutes to figure out how to write a spec file.
Then ALL the files in that installer are referenced in the final RPM, and to remove all the stuff you simply remove it using the rpm tool.
On debian it's much the same but with a deb instead of an rpm.
To install a deb file, just do "dpkg -i filename". Seems a lot like rpm, doesn't it.
I am not an itunes user, but I can see its appeal:
1. INSTANT gratification. You want it now, you've got it now.
2. Granularity. You paid 100$, but what if you only wanted those CDs for 40 total songs? In your example, you're buying what I'd call "specialty" CDs and don't follow the traditional model. Most people want a CD for 1-3 songs, which raises your price to about a buck a song, if not more (for the average person buying 30 cds for 100$)
3. Preview. Could you LEGALLY listen to clips of songs off of those 30 cds before buying them?
4. Plays on your IPOD/whatever. It'll take you at least 2-3 hours to rip all those cds if you're just sitting at the computer ripping.
Stuff like ebay, used music stores, hell even a NEW cd off amazon.com is great for expanding your CD collection when you know what you want already, but that's not the itunes use case.
But really, if you MEAN shit, then how is spelling it any different politeness wise?
:)
It's like I've never understood people who say "fark" instead of fuck, etc. They THINK fuck, and MEAN fuck, so doesn't that automatically give the word "fark" in that useage the exact same connotation as fuck, and thus is no longer "nicer"?
Food for thought
NO NO NO NO. If jabber WAS the defacto standard, and AOL was running a jabber server, the SAME THING could have happened.
LOTS of people use AOL, and many of them would have jabberaccounts with aim.com. If the same idiot sysadmin worked there, and deleted all these account, the same thing would have happened.
Email is "open," and I'd guess you could sum up >20% of active internet users with hotmail, gmail, and aol.com.
THE PROTOCOL, AND ITS OPEN OR CLOSEDNESS, DOES NOT ENTER INTO IT.
Note: I use jabber, and run my own server. Everyone in my family is jabber-only, because we got them onto it (including my >80 year old grandmother, so it meets the "parents" test by a mile and a half). I wish everyone was jabber-only.
"shit"
Say it with me. It's not hard, and no one will die.
How does one pronounce $h!t?
"Hey guys, i'll be back in a minute. I've got to take an h-bang-t dollars."
It wasn't an automatic response. He had a specific example of information he already knew that he was looking for as a test.
Were he actually researching something, then it'd obviously be silly to expect him to contribute, as if he knew, why would he be researching it?
I also didn't say anything close to what you paraphrased. I didn't say he shouldn't complain, I said he shouldn't JUST complain.
To use another repliers example, it'd be like if I had already implimented (for example) file transfers in AIM, then tested a new open source AIM client and complained that file transfers didn't work right.
Please apply some critical reasoning before automatically replying to what you call an automatic reply.
Then why not add them while you're there, instead of just complaining? That's the entire point of the wiki way.
No, these are small "NES on a chip" devices which look like an N64 control and come loaded with 256 pirated NES games. Have you seen those atari packs with 10 games atari has begun selling in gamestop/etc? It's like those except not put out by the person who own the rights.
These things can serve NO purpose other than playing pirated nintendo games. You cannot load your own code on it, you can't use it as a regular controller, etc. No two ways about it.
Because it's meant to be used by programs that do processing on the data, not simply aggregators.
By using SOAP, I can use php/java/c++ and simply bind to their services isntead of having to roll my own weather-xml->object (or hashtable, or whatever) converter.
This is not for you to just hit with your browser/wget/whatever to stick weather on your webpage (although you can do that, it's easy if you post the right data), it's to allow you to write your own application that does whatever it wants with the data in an easy manner.
It's not flat xml files based on city as per your example because that wouldn't make any sense. If you read through their api's there's a lot of data you can get based on long/lat or weather station id or........
Usually a game sound is mono, and the sound engine renders it's position using some 3d sound API. Except for a cutscene, you'd never use a surround encoded sound.
While you could "cheat" using this and have, say, 16 mp3s of a gunshot from 16 radials around the listener, I still don't see it as being that helpful.