The summary mentions that the name is derived from the mythical phoenix, but this is only part of the story. The probe - the first to be launched as part of NASA's low cost "scout" program - was led by the University of Arizona. It's safe to guess that Phoenix also refers to the capital of the arid state. I wonder if I'm the only one who keeps confusing the leadership of this mission with the ubiquitous University of Phoenix.
For this and more information on the Phoenix mission, see the mission page.
The sptimes.com article is interesting. It points out that as of 2001, the company had delivered nothing but hot air, and had apparently charged the city of Hoboken for US$3 mil in the process. Do you think that the company got another ransom payment for finishing the parking structure after they were (apparently) rehired? I suppose all that money went right to auditing and training classes. It seems to me that Scientology is made of the attributes listed in the article: "part exuberant salesmanship and part hyperbole." These are nicer terms than I would use. I speculate that this software licensing row seems to indicate the Co$ stance on software - it's all in the license. Fight Scientology by supporting FOSS:)
I've run Workstation and GSX (Server) on Windows and Linux. The best performance by far was Linux with XFS. Ext3 does not cut it (regardless of writeback option used). XFS support is a little tricky to find in VMWare supported distros. For less critical servers, I prefer Centos 4 with the Centosplus kernel (see the Readme). Centos isn't supported by VMWare but Red Hat is.
VMWare Server supports Ubuntu as a host. It's a little easier to setup XFS and VMWare on Ubuntu. VMWare server claims experimental support for Ubuntu Dapper. I am running it on two servers for testing and it is performing very well. As Ubuntu gains popularity, the choice may be clearer. For right now, Google University has more help for VMWare on Red Hat^W^WCentos than Ubuntu.
If your system is AMD64/EM64T, you may be tempted to load a 64-bit OS. Resist the temptation. VMWare now claims official support for x64 host operating systems, but in practice these are more trouble to get working than they are worth (MUI, authentication, and even stability can be problematic IMO). With hardware that supports 64-bit virtualization (many new Pentiums and Opterons), 64-bit guests can be run on both 32- and 64-bit hosts. Determining whether your CPU supports it is so difficult, VMWare made a tool to do it for you called the processor check utility. (It's about halfway down this page.) Down the road when 4GB+ is standard on laptops, VMWare's x64 support will probably be a lot better.
Mr. Shuttleworth mentions the as yet unannounced Grumpy Groundhog project in TFA. He says it's ToBeAnnounced which I took as a hint that info is in the wiki:
It's an ubuntu distribution for developers that has the daily builds of everything:
Upstream development in the open source world moves at a tremendous pace. Many developers like to keep up to date with specific upstream products, but the work involved in building from CVS every day is substantial. With The Grumpy Groundhog Project, Ubuntu provides those developers with a ready source of packages containing the latest upstream code.
These same packages will allow cutting-edge developers to keep track of changes in the upstream codebase that might affect the distribution later down the line. For example, these packages can be auto-built with the latest compiler and toolchain packages to test compatibility with the versions that may be used for the next release of Ubuntu.
Google announced a new larger index in the birthday message. It seems that this was accomplished at least in part by caching sites with SIDs. Among other things this adds caching for every PHPBB message ever. It's a little easier to see how they grew their index so much.
Books that have "Search Inside!"(tm) have the full text searched when you do a regular Amazon books search. From Amazon:
...with Search Inside!, search results will include titles based on every word inside the book. Search Inside! results are displayed interspersed with the standard results.
1. Point your browser to Macromedia's Global Storage Settings Panel. 2. Drag the slider to "None". The setting seems to take effect immediately. 3. Click the last tab on the right, a picture of a folder with a green arrow pointing in. 4. Any sites that have already stored data locally will show a value in the "used" column. I had a few suspicious entries in mine which were instantly cleared by clicking "delete all".
These "old world" tech media sources have such a funny way of writing about Unix. Why is a magazine with a 99% NT-based readership writing about Unix? Are they trying to make resellers comfortable with the alien command-line based world of Unix? Why?
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The summary mentions that the name is derived from the mythical phoenix, but this is only part of the story. The probe - the first to be launched as part of NASA's low cost "scout" program - was led by the University of Arizona. It's safe to guess that Phoenix also refers to the capital of the arid state. I wonder if I'm the only one who keeps confusing the leadership of this mission with the ubiquitous University of Phoenix.
For this and more information on the Phoenix mission, see the mission page.
The sptimes.com article is interesting. It points out that as of 2001, the company had delivered nothing but hot air, and had apparently charged the city of Hoboken for US$3 mil in the process. Do you think that the company got another ransom payment for finishing the parking structure after they were (apparently) rehired? I suppose all that money went right to auditing and training classes. It seems to me that Scientology is made of the attributes listed in the article: "part exuberant salesmanship and part hyperbole." These are nicer terms than I would use. I speculate that this software licensing row seems to indicate the Co$ stance on software - it's all in the license. Fight Scientology by supporting FOSS :)
I've run Workstation and GSX (Server) on Windows and Linux. The best performance by far was Linux with XFS. Ext3 does not cut it (regardless of writeback option used). XFS support is a little tricky to find in VMWare supported distros. For less critical servers, I prefer Centos 4 with the Centosplus kernel (see the Readme). Centos isn't supported by VMWare but Red Hat is.
VMWare Server supports Ubuntu as a host. It's a little easier to setup XFS and VMWare on Ubuntu. VMWare server claims experimental support for Ubuntu Dapper. I am running it on two servers for testing and it is performing very well. As Ubuntu gains popularity, the choice may be clearer. For right now, Google University has more help for VMWare on Red Hat^W^WCentos than Ubuntu.
If your system is AMD64/EM64T, you may be tempted to load a 64-bit OS. Resist the temptation. VMWare now claims official support for x64 host operating systems, but in practice these are more trouble to get working than they are worth (MUI, authentication, and even stability can be problematic IMO). With hardware that supports 64-bit virtualization (many new Pentiums and Opterons), 64-bit guests can be run on both 32- and 64-bit hosts. Determining whether your CPU supports it is so difficult, VMWare made a tool to do it for you called the processor check utility. (It's about halfway down this page.) Down the road when 4GB+ is standard on laptops, VMWare's x64 support will probably be a lot better.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GrumpyGroundhog
It's an ubuntu distribution for developers that has the daily builds of everything:
Google announced a new larger index in the birthday message. It seems that this was accomplished at least in part by caching sites with SIDs. Among other things this adds caching for every PHPBB message ever. It's a little easier to see how they grew their index so much.
1. Point your browser to Macromedia's Global Storage Settings Panel.
2. Drag the slider to "None". The setting seems to take effect immediately.
3. Click the last tab on the right, a picture of a folder with a green arrow pointing in.
4. Any sites that have already stored data locally will show a value in the "used" column. I had a few suspicious entries in mine which were instantly cleared by clicking "delete all".
Smaller particles are better, but it will not be cool until I have a holographic storage cube full of pirated multi-region DVDs.
These "old world" tech media sources have such a funny way of writing about Unix. Why is a magazine with a 99% NT-based readership writing about Unix? Are they trying to make resellers comfortable with the alien command-line based world of Unix? Why?