Can anyone explain the different Apache performance figures? I'm running Apache 1.3.3 at work for a project, and we'd like to get the best possible performance out of it. Hopefully someone will reply with "Just recompile with -02 and pentium settings" ??? --
Patents aren't awarded instantly, they take years. The first implementation of this was 1989 according to their web site. So, any prior art has to be prior to 1989 - NOT prior to the issue of the patent. Now, I don't know when nettrek or these other games were doing this, but if it wasn't before 1989 then it's not prior art, and the patent is perfectly within it's rights.
Having said all that - I totally disagree with software patents. OK? --
I wonder how this thing stands up to being smashed around like the old "Gilligan's Island" machine in the bar I used to run. Man - that thing took a beating... --
These students should get a life. Linux is the better OS, but that doesn't mean we should market it with "oppose Microsoft". Please - show some self respect. --
Hotmail is a huge gateway for this sort of illegal activity, and they don't care, and won't do anything about it. They have been contacted numerous times about the issue but never take any action further than simply removing the account. After which of course the crackers can simply open a new hotmail account. There is one case of crackers obtaining a huge list of ISP phone numbers, usernames and passwords by using a trojan pointing to hotmail. Their account is still active despite all the information being given to them!
Also - I think it's hugely worrying that this is happening to open source software. You sort of expect it from binaries, but with source code you don't expect to have to check it for trojans. This is a sad day... --
Having worked a bit with Aladdin as a beta tester and a minor contributor I can say that they are a great company, and Peter is very helpful. It's a shame that GS 5.50 can't be included on the Red Hat CD's - although I don't know why RH don't licence it from him - I'd rather have the improved printouts that 5.50 gives me than the backup utility that I've never used. --
Feel free to contact me directly (you didn't leave a contact e-mail) and I'll try and help you get this done. I had the same problem initially, but it all works beautifully now. --
Hypermart is a free service that allows you to run personal CGI's. It's a bit like geocities, only better because of the CGI's. Have a look at what they do. --
Why would a kernel have I18n support? Or is that just food for the PHB's?
Is it just me that thinks the kernel is getting way too bloated now, and some stuff could easily move out of the kernel (video4linux doesn't strike me as something that should be at the kernel level).
It's the right analogy. Of course it's interchangable - Linux wasn't the perfect solution either, NT provides some stuff that Linux doesn't and Linux provides some stuff NT doesn't (most notably - stability).
A lot of truly proffesional writers wouldn't dream of using Word (or Word Perfect, or StarOffice) - they are too display oriented. I'm a new proffesional writer (first book in production now) and I'm using Nedit on Linux because all the text is written in XML, so a WP isn't much use. --
There's barely any assembler left as of OS 3.1. Most of that was removed in the transition from 2.04 IIRC. There's still some of course, but only in the tight kernel loops, which would be easy to code out - see the AROS project.
BTW: Allan Havemose (chief developer at Amiga Inc) said he was interested in releasing OS3.1 as open source, probably after 5.0 gets released. (some time in 2000).
It's MUI - it's totally themable right down to the smallest details of every widget (even further than GTK and KDE). Not sure why the screenshot user wants his apps to look like that though.
Matt.
I still think it's fud atm though - an app like that is just a few lines with MUI - just as it would be in KDE or GTK. --
Would anyone be interested in an article on how to setup Apache to do Authentication against an NT domain?
I've just done this at work and it wasn't trivial - and I had to "fly by the seat of my pants", since there wasn't any documentation I could find on it.
Anyway it works rather well, so if anyone wants some sort of article on that I'd be pleased to provide it. Mail me directly (unmunge the e-mail address) if you're interested.
I'm just drooling at those tabbed windows. Take that and shove it MSIE;-)
Seriously though - the tabbed windows are just another non-standard entity, cool as they may be. Where are those defined in HTML 4.0 ? Oh, that's right - they're not. I guess they can be used for building NS's GUI, but I fear for web pages that go back to displaying "Best viewed with Mozilla"!!!
Depends.. [Was: Contracting is the solution: yep]
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OK, here's my rebuttal:
- taxes: I pay my accountant to do that. He does everything for me. Every quarter I send him my invoices (which are printed automatically each week by a StarOffice macro), my reciepts and anything else he needs. In return I get sent pre-paid envelopes which I just stick a cheque in. I actually save money by using an accountant because a) I can spend that time working, and b) he knows all the right forms to save me money.
- Unpredictability: 6 months is a huge over estimate. Perhaps you go for a long time between contracts, but I don't know any contractors (and I know a lot) that are broke, or go hand to mouth.
- Treatment: I just keep my head down, and give as good as I get (in a light hearted way). I actually prefer the treatment I get because I'm not surrounded by political BS.
Perhaps it's a lot different in the US though.
Contracting is the solution
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I used to be one of the best employees at my previous company, but I wasn't given wage rises for the following reasons:
- My hair wasn't as nice as Richards (OK, that's what it fealt like) - I didn't want to go into management - They couldn't, because they had to give everyone similar wages
So, I got sick of the BS and went contracting. Never regretted it yet, and earn more than the directors at the previous company.
Am I loyal to my employees? Yes - I employ myself! Are my employees loyal to me? I hope so ("self - am I loyal to me?");-)
I think the older generation can also benefit from this newer model - they just have to face facts - the world is changing, you can no longer stay at the same job for the rest of your life. I think it's far more interesting this way.
Unfortunately a lot of people who have these "non-acquired" factors (as you so eloquently put it;-)) abuse the system. I've heard a gazillion storys from my maw-and-paw-in-law (Canadians) about people who threaten to sue when turned down for a job/education/whatever siting the equality laws as reason. The employer/educator/whatever almost always back down - they rarely have the guts to go to court because Canadian citizens have so many rights (a good thing and a bad thing).
OK - these people aren't stupid. It's not working. Wages are rising, the skills shortage claim isn't saturating the market - the market is the same as it's always been.
I agree with the bit about contractors though - they can vary hugely in skill levels. Sometimes that makes being a contractor very difficult, and it certainly puts companies off hiring them. I'm a contractor, but I don't think I've been at a job yet where the permies knew more than me. I hope to be surprised one of these days though!
OK, I agree that this is false. I've seen it over and over again, and even experienced it first hand: "There's a skills shortage - why then can't you find me a contract???"
So. Why do these companies want to create this false impression? I've got the following, but I would like to know more if someone knows:
- To artificially raise wages (I have no problem with this <g>) - To lobby the US govt to allow more green cards. (I don't know why they would want this if the shortage really is artificial!).
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Can anyone explain the different Apache performance figures? I'm running Apache 1.3.3 at work for a project, and we'd like to get the best possible performance out of it. Hopefully someone will reply with "Just recompile with -02 and pentium settings" ???
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Patents aren't awarded instantly, they take years. The first implementation of this was 1989 according to their web site. So, any prior art has to be prior to 1989 - NOT prior to the issue of the patent. Now, I don't know when nettrek or these other games were doing this, but if it wasn't before 1989 then it's not prior art, and the patent is perfectly within it's rights.
Having said all that - I totally disagree with software patents. OK?
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I wonder how this thing stands up to being smashed around like the old "Gilligan's Island" machine in the bar I used to run. Man - that thing took a beating...
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Oh yes, I'm sure they'll burn in hell, those evil, evil people.
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Can anyone tell us what a turbomole is - inquiring minds want to know...
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These students should get a life. Linux is the better OS, but that doesn't mean we should market it with "oppose Microsoft". Please - show some self respect.
--
Hotmail is a huge gateway for this sort of illegal activity, and they don't care, and won't do anything about it. They have been contacted numerous times about the issue but never take any action further than simply removing the account. After which of course the crackers can simply open a new hotmail account. There is one case of crackers obtaining a huge list of ISP phone numbers, usernames and passwords by using a trojan pointing to hotmail. Their account is still active despite all the information being given to them!
Also - I think it's hugely worrying that this is happening to open source software. You sort of expect it from binaries, but with source code you don't expect to have to check it for trojans. This is a sad day...
--
Having worked a bit with Aladdin as a beta tester and a minor contributor I can say that they are a great company, and Peter is very helpful. It's a shame that GS 5.50 can't be included on the Red Hat CD's - although I don't know why RH don't licence it from him - I'd rather have the improved printouts that 5.50 gives me than the backup utility that I've never used.
--
Feel free to contact me directly (you didn't leave a contact e-mail) and I'll try and help you get this done. I had the same problem initially, but it all works beautifully now.
--
Hypermart is a free service that allows you to run personal CGI's. It's a bit like geocities, only better because of the CGI's. Have a look at what they do.
--
Why would a kernel have I18n support? Or is that just food for the PHB's?
Is it just me that thinks the kernel is getting way too bloated now, and some stuff could easily move out of the kernel (video4linux doesn't strike me as something that should be at the kernel level).
Matt.
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It's the right analogy. Of course it's interchangable - Linux wasn't the perfect solution either, NT provides some stuff that Linux doesn't and Linux provides some stuff NT doesn't (most notably - stability).
Matt.
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A lot of truly proffesional writers wouldn't dream of using Word (or Word Perfect, or StarOffice) - they are too display oriented. I'm a new proffesional writer (first book in production now) and I'm using Nedit on Linux because all the text is written in XML, so a WP isn't much use.
--
There's barely any assembler left as of OS 3.1. Most of that was removed in the transition from 2.04 IIRC. There's still some of course, but only in the tight kernel loops, which would be easy to code out - see the AROS project.
BTW: Allan Havemose (chief developer at Amiga Inc) said he was interested in releasing OS3.1 as open source, probably after 5.0 gets released. (some time in 2000).
Matt.
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Since MUI was released, I'm not sure when that was, but it's probably about 5 years now.
You didn't think the idea of themable widgets was new did you?
Matt.
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It's MUI - it's totally themable right down to the smallest details of every widget (even further than GTK and KDE). Not sure why the screenshot user wants his apps to look like that though.
Matt.
I still think it's fud atm though - an app like that is just a few lines with MUI - just as it would be in KDE or GTK.
--
Would anyone be interested in an article on how to setup Apache to do Authentication against an NT domain?
I've just done this at work and it wasn't trivial - and I had to "fly by the seat of my pants", since there wasn't any documentation I could find on it.
Anyway it works rather well, so if anyone wants some sort of article on that I'd be pleased to provide it. Mail me directly (unmunge the e-mail address) if you're interested.
I'm just drooling at those tabbed windows. Take that and shove it MSIE ;-)
Seriously though - the tabbed windows are just another non-standard entity, cool as they may be. Where are those defined in HTML 4.0 ? Oh, that's right - they're not. I guess they can be used for building NS's GUI, but I fear for web pages that go back to displaying "Best viewed with Mozilla"!!!
OK, here's my rebuttal:
- taxes: I pay my accountant to do that. He does everything for me. Every quarter I send him my invoices (which are printed automatically each week by a StarOffice macro), my reciepts and anything else he needs. In return I get sent pre-paid envelopes which I just stick a cheque in. I actually save money by using an accountant because a) I can spend that time working, and b) he knows all the right forms to save me money.
- Unpredictability: 6 months is a huge over estimate. Perhaps you go for a long time between contracts, but I don't know any contractors (and I know a lot) that are broke, or go hand to mouth.
- Treatment: I just keep my head down, and give as good as I get (in a light hearted way). I actually prefer the treatment I get because I'm not surrounded by political BS.
Perhaps it's a lot different in the US though.
I used to be one of the best employees at my previous company, but I wasn't given wage rises for the following reasons:
;-)
- My hair wasn't as nice as Richards (OK, that's what it fealt like)
- I didn't want to go into management
- They couldn't, because they had to give everyone similar wages
So, I got sick of the BS and went contracting. Never regretted it yet, and earn more than the directors at the previous company.
Am I loyal to my employees? Yes - I employ myself!
Are my employees loyal to me? I hope so ("self - am I loyal to me?")
I think the older generation can also benefit from this newer model - they just have to face facts - the world is changing, you can no longer stay at the same job for the rest of your life. I think it's far more interesting this way.
Unfortunately a lot of people who have these "non-acquired" factors (as you so eloquently put it ;-)) abuse the system. I've heard a gazillion storys from my maw-and-paw-in-law (Canadians) about people who threaten to sue when turned down for a job/education/whatever siting the equality laws as reason. The employer/educator/whatever almost always back down - they rarely have the guts to go to court because Canadian citizens have so many rights (a good thing and a bad thing).
Matt.
My mum is a COBOL programmer on a 6 figure (UK pounds) salary. Doing y2k work.
Of course, she's a contractor.
OK - these people aren't stupid. It's not working. Wages are rising, the skills shortage claim isn't saturating the market - the market is the same as it's always been.
I agree with the bit about contractors though - they can vary hugely in skill levels. Sometimes that makes being a contractor very difficult, and it certainly puts companies off hiring them. I'm a contractor, but I don't think I've been at a job yet where the permies knew more than me. I hope to be surprised one of these days though!
Matt.
OK, I agree that this is false. I've seen it over and over again, and even experienced it first hand: "There's a skills shortage - why then can't you find me a contract???"
So. Why do these companies want to create this false impression? I've got the following, but I would like to know more if someone knows:
- To artificially raise wages (I have no problem with this <g>)
- To lobby the US govt to allow more green cards. (I don't know why they would want this if the shortage really is artificial!).
Anyone got any good explanations?
Matt.