According to Netcraft, they've been running (sensibly enough) Solaris/Apache on net-facing systems. For a while they also had Linux boxes there. I'm guessing the bootlegged Windows systems were probably for billing/admin use.
My grandfather got a tattoo done in Cairo when he was a teenager. Snakes and dragons and stuff. He nearly died from the lead content they used in the inks. I remeber as a kid being fascinated by his arms. He always told me never to get a tattoo. So I did. One cool guy. Although he did make CEO before he died. Rest in peace.
IBM has bypassed U.S. export controls with Linux... "Syria and Libya and North Korea" are all building supercomputers with Linux and inexpensive Intel hardware, in violation of U.S. export control laws. These laws would normally restrict export of technologies such as "JFS, NUMA, RCU, and SMPâ"and... encryption technologies... We know that is occurring in Syria"
From an interview with Chris Sontag, SCO's Senior Vice President in Byte. Sounds more like Donad Rumsfeld than Mohammed al-Sahaf.
SCO doesn't need to win this case in court. If they win, it would be great. But if they can get enough of the major Linux customers they've been sending letters to to switch, then it will have been worth the legal costs. They already have Microsoft paying them money off the back of this. Which is why their stock price is doing OK right now.
The court case will take years. For now, everything is going according to plan.
Israel is only a racist state if there is such a thing as "the Jewish race". Hitler thought there was a Jewish race. Most geneticis don't go for that. Nor do I, and nor do immigration at Ben Gurion airport. If Judaism is a religion consisting of Russians, Moroccans, Ethipoians etc then the state's discrimination is not on the grounds of race but of religion. The state's actions are questionable on the grounds of religous favouritism, breach of international law etc. but you can't quite call it racism.
Describing Bush as pro-business is like describing Bill Clinton as pro-women. Sure Monica may have done OK out of Bill in the end. But there are more women out there than Monica, just as there are more businesses out there than Enron.
I have no idea what cursive writing is (I'm a brit). Is it like joined-up writing?
When I was a kid I went to a French school to learn to write. We had to use fountain pens, and this weird lined paper. All the stuff about joining was important. The t had to be so high, the l so high, lowercase s had a straight line, and if you failed to dot your i's then you were in big trouble. To this day I can still spot handwriting from someone who's been through the French system. Aged 8 I switched to English school and nobody really cared what your handwiring looked like anymore. I'd be interested to see a sample of this cursive thing though. Is it like what the French do?
I bought a copy of Windows 2000 Server in Palestine for about $2 last month. The guy in the computer shop told me that before the intifada, people did buy legit copies of MS software. (Unemployment is now 90% in some areas due to curfews, and priorities are not what they used to be.) Theft as such is surprisingly rare in such a messed up place. People really look out for eachother.
Software piracy is seen not as theft but more as sharing. It's scary how little OSS software gets used. Occasionally you'll see a foreign NGO introduce it, or some of the people who study CS in university will know about it. A lot of the ISP infrastructure runs OSS. Running traceroute is always an experience. There ought to be an ICMP flag for "soldiers have cut off the power supply". Trying to enforce liscensing in Palestine would require a functioning police force, judicary and government, none of which actually exist. So people just copy.
I'd post the url to the site, but it's one of those annoying Flash things. In an interview with the Design Museum, Ives talks about how frustating it was to be a consultant before he joined Apple. "By the time you had accepted the comission so many of the vital decisions had been made." So when he started it sounds like he was doing a lot of the engineering to someone else's specification. He also says in the interview that "what we have achived with design is massivley reliant on the commitment of lots of different teams to solve the same problems." Read the article, it's pretty interesting.
If this is a rigged vote, someone is going to be pretty unhappy. The winner walks away with £25,000 (about US$40,000), and gets massive publicity. The award is billed as the design industry's answer to the Oscars or the Turner prize - this is only the 1st year, so that's wishfull thinking. But over here in London, or indeed in the whole of Europe, I can't think of anything like the Design Museum. Imagine the design section of MoMA in New York. Only bigger.
Just tried this with French and Arabic. I have a file called "beit" on my desktop (Arabic word for house). In the finder it looks fine, but doing ls from the terminal just throws up ????, so path completion won't work. In Arabic there there's no upper case to play with, though there are variations in letters depending on where they are in the word - beginning, middle, or end. Most letters have 4 forms. The idea is that each letter should join the next one (apart from alef, dah and a few others). OSX seems not to let you miswrite these 4 forms though, so I can't experiment.
With French you can have 2 files, both called meme (one with accents and one without), but you can't call 2 files in the same directory Meme and meme, as HFS+ is case insensitive (but not accent insensitive). In the case of the accents, they show up as me??me?? in ls.
Back in 1997 Apple and IBM both used the Power PC 604 chip. IBM still uses it in low end AIX servers. Then Apple started shipping units based on the G3, made by Motorola. Motorola added Altivec (SIMD instructions) to the G3, changed the caches and Apple badged it as G4. Later, IBM began to fab G3s for the newer iBooks, as Motorola focused on the G4 as a cheap embeded chip for routers etc. IBM's Power 4 (a high end server chip which the 970 is based on) is a 64 bit CPU with a similar instruction set to the 32 bit 604.
I guess IBM has the new chip running either AIX, or Linux, both of which work fine on the Power 4.
Installation of either is a ROYAL pain and not standardized, so you have to design your server, OS and other settings for the webmail system. for eg, for Squirrelmail you have to use courier imap and either courier mta or qmail.
It's not that bad. I've been running Squirrelmail for over a year on UW IMAP and Postfix. There's now an RPM install, and it's included with the latest versions of Redhat. After you've installed you have to run a Perl script to set which IMAP server you're using (choice of Courrier, UW, Cyrus), what your hostname and site names are, the default themes, where you want to save tmp files, LDAP support etc. Works fine with Sendmail and Qmail too. Not hard. If you want to customise there are a lot of plugins you can use, or write your own.
Initially, the plan to convert from FreeBSD to Windows was met with responses ranging from skepticism to hostility, in a way that should be familiar to those who share the attitudes of the various UNIX communities to Microsoft software.
It's interesting that the sysadmins were kept away from the porting project utill it was pretty much done. Mostly it seem that MS took the easy options and used MS's unix compatibility products rather than going the ASP/AD way. I wonder how many of the original 15 Hotmail unix admins are still working there.
SGI had people working on 64 bit support back in the days of Apache 1.36. Their big thing with 64 bit support was to cache huge amounts of static data with a new cacheing module, using the 64 bit address space. AFAIK there is curenlty no maintainer to this code and ASF didn't merge it into the main tree.
Photography as a source of revenue is dying across the board. In the UK, where I work, the newspapers I work for pay the same page rates they were paying in the 80s. Meanwhile equipment is more expensive, and editors are less likely to assume risk for a project. Yeah, just bring us your pics when you get back from Ramallah. That's after you've paid for flights, film, batteries, bribes or whatever. Working for papers has one advantage though, and that is that papers understand that they do not (though some are trying to) have a right to reproduce the images forever. The only people I trust with my negatives/scans with are newspapers. Wire agencies like Reuters or AP get the copyright to your work, and let's not even talk about Bill Gates' Corbis/Sygma, who are trying retrospective contracts to own their staff's life work.
As a photographer operating today the way make money is either to take beautiful pics for rich clients, fashion/corporate style, or to string together a series of pictures as a story and present it as art. Keep the copyright. Wedding photography is a mug's game to be in, as is hard news - because everyone takes the same pictures nobody needs to buy yours.
I've seen my share of robotic wedding pics. Maybe this device is already in use.
Seriously though, a lot of social photography is about relationships between people, and if a robot has no idea which one is the bride's cousin and what she's doing behind a hedge with the best man, it's going to miss a lot of intereting stuff. Though most wedding hacks I've seen miss that too. I'd love to see pictures from this machine, if only to emulate that "mindless robot" look.
Serif fonts are nice. The little serif bits (like the ornament on an uppercase T) make it easier for the eye to follow over long passages in type, which is why most newpapers and books are set in serif faces. These serif faces are derived from Roman carved typography such as Trajan's colunm. Sans serif faces (without serif) start appearing in the 19th century, and were orginally known as grotesque faces.
However, scale a serif font down to 10 points (72 points in an inch), then draw it at 72dpi on a monitor, and the curved ornaments become a single pixel which do nothing for readability. How fast do you read words on a screen compared to words on a page? Yup, there really is a measurable difference. Good antialiasing helps, but you're still nowhere close to the detail you would see at the same size on paper. Even well designed serif fonts such as Helvetica or Gill Sans are hard to read small on low resolution screens. This is why MS comissioned the MS web fonts, and they really are OK on screen. Surprise yourself, try them in your HTML 1.0 browser.
Chimera is a cocoa app with Gecko rendering engine embeded. It feels far more Mac-like than IE. It's still at version 0.4, so some features are missing from the preferences, but it's stable and fast. So far they have no plans for doing an email client, news reader etc.
MS isn't the first US corp to complain about "unfair" trading terms imposed by foreign governments. Take the beef row with Europe. Europe maintains that any US concern can ship beef to Europe, providing it meets European standards - basically that the level of growth hormone in the meat is below a certain level. So this is free trade, anyone can produce goods to the spec. The problem is that in the US nobody produces beef without growth hormones. So no beef goes from the US to Europe.
Similarly, MS could produce "open" software for use in Peru in order to compete in the free market according to local regulations. That would mean a big shift in its own practices which it is not prepared to make. I have some sympathy for the MS position. Remember the bit in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy where Arthur Dent is told he had free access to the plans to demolish the Earth to make way for a hyperspace bypass. That is, if he can get to Alpha Centauri, get into the basement of the planning office, break open a locked safe etc.
But I'm still not eating American beef.
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Then there's redhat's apacheconf , which is a GTK based GUI for apache, or also linuxconf which uses Xwindows, curses or a web interface, or you could use webmin via a web interface, all open source tools. Personally I like to do it by hand as I haven't come across anything that lets me specify php settings per virtual host, but that's just me.
Also, you can now setup LVM (logical volume manager) during install, which is a handy alternative/complement to software raid.
Apache 2.0 + PHP seems to be there, presumably working, so I will have to see how threaded webservers do on pooling persistent database connections. This could be a big memory saver for our servers.
But why is there no remote sys-admin tool? Bindconf, apacheconf etc are very nice under gnome. But I don't run xwindows on my servers, so what the hell am I meant to use to admin bind and sendmail, 2 progs I'd rather not have to deal with the syntax for. I could use linuxconf, but that's been dropped as of 7.1. Please get it together with a curses based front end to all the *conf programs, or put linuxconf back.
The one PC platform box was a dual PIII 1.4Ghz. Not exactly the performance leader in dual CPU PC servers.
Actually, for 1U boxes, it is. See IBM for example. Their top speed is 1.2mhz PIII. Fast Pentium IVs aren't out for servers, unless you count Xenons, and those things need a good 4U if you don't want to toast your rack.
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According to Netcraft, they've been running (sensibly enough) Solaris/Apache on net-facing systems. For a while they also had Linux boxes there. I'm guessing the bootlegged Windows systems were probably for billing/admin use.
My grandfather got a tattoo done in Cairo when he was a teenager. Snakes and dragons and stuff. He nearly died from the lead content they used in the inks. I remeber as a kid being fascinated by his arms. He always told me never to get a tattoo. So I did. One cool guy. Although he did make CEO before he died. Rest in peace.
IBM has bypassed U.S. export controls with Linux... "Syria and Libya and North Korea" are all building supercomputers with Linux and inexpensive Intel hardware, in violation of U.S. export control laws. These laws would normally restrict export of technologies such as "JFS, NUMA, RCU, and SMPâ"and... encryption technologies... We know that is occurring in Syria"
From an interview with Chris Sontag, SCO's Senior Vice President in Byte. Sounds more like Donad Rumsfeld than Mohammed al-Sahaf.
SCO doesn't need to win this case in court. If they win, it would be great. But if they can get enough of the major Linux customers they've been sending letters to to switch, then it will have been worth the legal costs. They already have Microsoft paying them money off the back of this. Which is why their stock price is doing OK right now.
The court case will take years. For now, everything is going according to plan.
Yes, this is offtopic.
Israel is only a racist state if there is such a thing as "the Jewish race". Hitler thought there was a Jewish race. Most geneticis don't go for that. Nor do I, and nor do immigration at Ben Gurion airport. If Judaism is a religion consisting of Russians, Moroccans, Ethipoians etc then the state's discrimination is not on the grounds of race but of religion. The state's actions are questionable on the grounds of religous favouritism, breach of international law etc. but you can't quite call it racism.
Describing Bush as pro-business is like describing Bill Clinton as pro-women. Sure Monica may have done OK out of Bill in the end. But there are more women out there than Monica, just as there are more businesses out there than Enron.
I have no idea what cursive writing is (I'm a brit). Is it like joined-up writing?
When I was a kid I went to a French school to learn to write. We had to use fountain pens, and this weird lined paper. All the stuff about joining was important. The t had to be so high, the l so high, lowercase s had a straight line, and if you failed to dot your i's then you were in big trouble. To this day I can still spot handwriting from someone who's been through the French system. Aged 8 I switched to English school and nobody really cared what your handwiring looked like anymore. I'd be interested to see a sample of this cursive thing though. Is it like what the French do?
I bought a copy of Windows 2000 Server in Palestine for about $2 last month. The guy in the computer shop told me that before the intifada, people did buy legit copies of MS software. (Unemployment is now 90% in some areas due to curfews, and priorities are not what they used to be.) Theft as such is surprisingly rare in such a messed up place. People really look out for eachother.
Software piracy is seen not as theft but more as sharing. It's scary how little OSS software gets used. Occasionally you'll see a foreign NGO introduce it, or some of the people who study CS in university will know about it. A lot of the ISP infrastructure runs OSS. Running traceroute is always an experience. There ought to be an ICMP flag for "soldiers have cut off the power supply". Trying to enforce liscensing in Palestine would require a functioning police force, judicary and government, none of which actually exist. So people just copy.
I'd post the url to the site, but it's one of those annoying Flash things. In an interview with the Design Museum, Ives talks about how frustating it was to be a consultant before he joined Apple. "By the time you had accepted the comission so many of the vital decisions had been made." So when he started it sounds like he was doing a lot of the engineering to someone else's specification. He also says in the interview that "what we have achived with design is massivley reliant on the commitment of lots of different teams to solve the same problems." Read the article, it's pretty interesting.
If this is a rigged vote, someone is going to be pretty unhappy. The winner walks away with £25,000 (about US$40,000), and gets massive publicity. The award is billed as the design industry's answer to the Oscars or the Turner prize - this is only the 1st year, so that's wishfull thinking. But over here in London, or indeed in the whole of Europe, I can't think of anything like the Design Museum. Imagine the design section of MoMA in New York. Only bigger.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend
Said Donald Rumsfeld to Saddam Hussein in 1983.
Just tried this with French and Arabic. I have a file called "beit" on my desktop (Arabic word for house). In the finder it looks fine, but doing ls from the terminal just throws up ????, so path completion won't work. In Arabic there there's no upper case to play with, though there are variations in letters depending on where they are in the word - beginning, middle, or end. Most letters have 4 forms. The idea is that each letter should join the next one (apart from alef, dah and a few others). OSX seems not to let you miswrite these 4 forms though, so I can't experiment.
With French you can have 2 files, both called meme (one with accents and one without), but you can't call 2 files in the same directory Meme and meme, as HFS+ is case insensitive (but not accent insensitive). In the case of the accents, they show up as me??me?? in ls.
Sorry, I don't know any other languages.
Back in 1997 Apple and IBM both used the Power PC 604 chip. IBM still uses it in low end AIX servers. Then Apple started shipping units based on the G3, made by Motorola. Motorola added Altivec (SIMD instructions) to the G3, changed the caches and Apple badged it as G4. Later, IBM began to fab G3s for the newer iBooks, as Motorola focused on the G4 as a cheap embeded chip for routers etc. IBM's Power 4 (a high end server chip which the 970 is based on) is a 64 bit CPU with a similar instruction set to the 32 bit 604.
I guess IBM has the new chip running either AIX, or Linux, both of which work fine on the Power 4.
Ever typed "sudo rm -rf /"? Not RAID can save you from that mistake. Always keep backups - because human folly knows no limits.
Installation of either is a ROYAL pain and not standardized, so you have to design your server, OS and other settings for the webmail system. for eg, for Squirrelmail you have to use courier imap and either courier mta or qmail.
It's not that bad. I've been running Squirrelmail for over a year on UW IMAP and Postfix. There's now an RPM install, and it's included with the latest versions of Redhat. After you've installed you have to run a Perl script to set which IMAP server you're using (choice of Courrier, UW, Cyrus), what your hostname and site names are, the default themes, where you want to save tmp files, LDAP support etc. Works fine with Sendmail and Qmail too. Not hard. If you want to customise there are a lot of plugins you can use, or write your own.
The thing that had me convinced is this passage:
Initially, the plan to convert from FreeBSD to Windows was met with responses ranging from skepticism to hostility, in a way that should be familiar to those who share the attitudes of the various UNIX communities to Microsoft software.
It's interesting that the sysadmins were kept away from the porting project utill it was pretty much done. Mostly it seem that MS took the easy options and used MS's unix compatibility products rather than going the ASP/AD way. I wonder how many of the original 15 Hotmail unix admins are still working there.
http://aap.sourceforge.net/patchinfo.html
SGI had people working on 64 bit support back in the days of Apache 1.36. Their big thing with 64 bit support was to cache huge amounts of static data with a new cacheing module, using the 64 bit address space. AFAIK there is curenlty no maintainer to this code and ASF didn't merge it into the main tree.
Photography as a source of revenue is dying across the board. In the UK, where I work, the newspapers I work for pay the same page rates they were paying in the 80s. Meanwhile equipment is more expensive, and editors are less likely to assume risk for a project. Yeah, just bring us your pics when you get back from Ramallah. That's after you've paid for flights, film, batteries, bribes or whatever. Working for papers has one advantage though, and that is that papers understand that they do not (though some are trying to) have a right to reproduce the images forever. The only people I trust with my negatives/scans with are newspapers. Wire agencies like Reuters or AP get the copyright to your work, and let's not even talk about Bill Gates' Corbis/Sygma, who are trying retrospective contracts to own their staff's life work.
As a photographer operating today the way make money is either to take beautiful pics for rich clients, fashion/corporate style, or to string together a series of pictures as a story and present it as art. Keep the copyright. Wedding photography is a mug's game to be in, as is hard news - because everyone takes the same pictures nobody needs to buy yours.
I've seen my share of robotic wedding pics. Maybe this device is already in use.
Seriously though, a lot of social photography is about relationships between people, and if a robot has no idea which one is the bride's cousin and what she's doing behind a hedge with the best man, it's going to miss a lot of intereting stuff. Though most wedding hacks I've seen miss that too. I'd love to see pictures from this machine, if only to emulate that "mindless robot" look.
Disclaimer: I am not a wedding photographer.
Serif fonts are nice. The little serif bits (like the ornament on an uppercase T) make it easier for the eye to follow over long passages in type, which is why most newpapers and books are set in serif faces. These serif faces are derived from Roman carved typography such as Trajan's colunm. Sans serif faces (without serif) start appearing in the 19th century, and were orginally known as grotesque faces.
However, scale a serif font down to 10 points (72 points in an inch), then draw it at 72dpi on a monitor, and the curved ornaments become a single pixel which do nothing for readability. How fast do you read words on a screen compared to words on a page? Yup, there really is a measurable difference. Good antialiasing helps, but you're still nowhere close to the detail you would see at the same size on paper. Even well designed serif fonts such as Helvetica or Gill Sans are hard to read small on low resolution screens. This is why MS comissioned the MS web fonts, and they really are OK on screen. Surprise yourself, try them in your HTML 1.0 browser.
Just to translate the *cough*
Chimera is a cocoa app with Gecko rendering engine embeded. It feels far more Mac-like than IE. It's still at version 0.4, so some features are missing from the preferences, but it's stable and fast. So far they have no plans for doing an email client, news reader etc.
MS isn't the first US corp to complain about "unfair" trading terms imposed by foreign governments. Take the beef row with Europe. Europe maintains that any US concern can ship beef to Europe, providing it meets European standards - basically that the level of growth hormone in the meat is below a certain level. So this is free trade, anyone can produce goods to the spec. The problem is that in the US nobody produces beef without growth hormones. So no beef goes from the US to Europe.
Similarly, MS could produce "open" software for use in Peru in order to compete in the free market according to local regulations. That would mean a big shift in its own practices which it is not prepared to make. I have some sympathy for the MS position. Remember the bit in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy where Arthur Dent is told he had free access to the plans to demolish the Earth to make way for a hyperspace bypass. That is, if he can get to Alpha Centauri, get into the basement of the planning office, break open a locked safe etc.
But I'm still not eating American beef.
Then there's redhat's apacheconf , which is a GTK based GUI for apache, or also linuxconf which uses Xwindows, curses or a web interface, or you could use webmin via a web interface, all open source tools. Personally I like to do it by hand as I haven't come across anything that lets me specify php settings per virtual host, but that's just me.
Also, you can now setup LVM (logical volume manager) during install, which is a handy alternative/complement to software raid.
Apache 2.0 + PHP seems to be there, presumably working, so I will have to see how threaded webservers do on pooling persistent database connections. This could be a big memory saver for our servers.
But why is there no remote sys-admin tool? Bindconf, apacheconf etc are very nice under gnome. But I don't run xwindows on my servers, so what the hell am I meant to use to admin bind and sendmail, 2 progs I'd rather not have to deal with the syntax for. I could use linuxconf, but that's been dropped as of 7.1. Please get it together with a curses based front end to all the *conf programs, or put linuxconf back.
The one PC platform box was a dual PIII 1.4Ghz. Not exactly the performance leader in dual CPU PC servers.
Actually, for 1U boxes, it is. See IBM for example. Their top speed is 1.2mhz PIII. Fast Pentium IVs aren't out for servers, unless you count Xenons, and those things need a good 4U if you don't want to toast your rack.