Yes, Totem is awful. A few months ago I moved from MPlayer to VLC. If you use the skin that comes with VLC (not on by default for some reason), you get very close to WMP functionality. I've never used Media Centre so I can't comment.
For years I used old hardware an cobbled together bits to run my home file server. In the end I felt my time was worth more than the constant restarts due to kernel panics (I suspected the motherboard was going) and the constant forced fsck due to a dodgy hard drive.
I few years ago I finally bit the bullet and spent AUD 2K on an Asus TS-300 pedestal server and have never looked back. In Australia they come with a 3y advance replacement warranty but I'm sure that Asus would offer that in other parts of the world. I tweaked my setup a little hardware-wise but the base model is less expensive now at about $1700.
I installed Debian Etch, with software RAID, Apache, Postfix/Dovecot/Ilohamail, Samba, SSH and Jabber. I fine tuned it for about 2 weeks, and then left it alone. I never hear a peep out of that box and it runs everything I need flawlessly.
Industrial strength software on rock solid hardware means no downtime for me (and no more late nights troubleshooting failed hardware). I have sworn that I will never go back to using cobbled bits again unless I'm just playing with it.
Indeed! I've always been fascinated by celestial navigation. I understand how you can use a multitude of landmarks (and stars) to figure out where you are on earth, but what about the vast emptiness of space?
Here's a hypothetical for someone more knowledgable on the subject: if we had a spacecraft capable of faster than light travel (think Starship Trooper troop carriers or Alien quadrilogy mining ships) to actually go somewhere interesting in a few months or even years, how does one go about determining position, attitude (which I guess is relative since there's no "up" or "down" in space), and course?
Would you calibrate it off Earth's known position in space (is it known?) and go from there or could you go off the stars your computer can see and identify - and would they move enough (relative to your position) to give you an accurate speed and direction?
Any JPL/spaceflight engineers out there that can comment?
Here's a serious question I just thought of as a result of your post. I'd like to know from the Christians out there - should we ultimately find intelligent life somewhere out in space or visiting us; and they are decidedly *not* human but intelligent in a "Greetings Terrans..." kind of way - would this affect your belief in god? Would it make you less inclined to believe or more? If you would still believe in god, would you believe that god made our new alien visitors too? Or is god's creation limited to humans?
Answers from all sides of the spectrum welcome (fundamentalists to moderates).
The image associations are not only unique to the user, they're also "hard to forget," the researchers said. "After typing her password several times, a user develops 'muscle memory' and can log in quickly without referring to the inkblot images," they said.
No shit. Type any password enough times your fingers learn where the keys are, even if you're not consciously thinking about what you're typing.
So their aim is to have you look at the inkblots, work out your passwords, type the password until your fingers get it, and then you don't have to look at the inkblots any more No numbers, no mix of uppercase and lowercase, and no punctuation. Doesn't sound particularly
Running APG over a web interface and getting pronouncable, strong passwords which will develop into muscle memory just as easily sounds like a much better solution.
Not to mention the the whole "oh btw, we're storing your associations" bit. It should be painfully obvious that when it comes to security, Microsoft simply doesn't "get it".
To the best of my knowledge, Telstra (the enormous half govt telco here in Australia) were about to start the process of choosing between Linux and Windows for umpteen-thousand desktops right when the SCO saga hit.
Needless to say, Telstra are still predominantly Windows based, and many Telstra employees blame the SCO scaremongering.
Well personally I think the Dallas Mavericks need to improve their front line ball-running and trade players in and out of the game more often if they are to be in with a chance this season. Also, if the Captain Maverick was placed in the middle instead of the front during the offensive plays, they could ensure more runs on the board by getting more stoppages in their favor.
Who are the Dallas Mavericks?
Indeed - maybe he should stick to whatever the hell he's good at, and leave the ISP stuff up to those that actually know what they're talking about.
linuxfoundation.org appears to be a domain squatter site.
Whois shows: Last Updated On:26-Oct-2007 19:57:38 UTC
Which is not the same day and month as the creation date, so I'm suspecting either someone has taken this domain over or it wasn't legit in the first place (I don't know as I don't think I've ever been there). Maybe check our links before we post them to the front page on./? Hits on these types of sites just encourage domain squatting.
I was in a bar in Ensenada, drinking a warm beer quickly and trying to remind myself that I hadn't murdered anyone, when my alarm clock caught up with me. Little bastard.
I understand the context in which the word "apology" is being used (as in "justification"), but I had to laugh at the semantics of "apologising for FORTRAN".
82 is a good innings. No matter what you think of FORTRAN as a language, I think it's safe to say that it, and later some of the other really early languages advanced computer science greatly during its infancy. We have a lot to thank Backus for.
I agree. When I started my new job they gave me a list of phones and said choose one. The only one on the list that even came close to the functionality of my trusty 6310 was the 6230. The 6310 went to my wife, but now she has needed to "upgrade" since the 6310's battery keeps disconnecting momentarily, switching off the phone, and the keypad is a bit dodgy from years of (my) abuse. Having said that, the 6230 is no where near as sturdy. I would have loved a new phone in the 6230 form-factor with upgraded processor, color display etc but keeping most of the core "functionality" of the phone. Maybe the mobile companies should do incremental upgrades to the phones instead of ditching the old designs completely every time a new phone comes out.
Hellfire do you work for a outsourcing company be any chance.>
No, I work for a mining company you've heard of.
Not doing documentation and not holding change approval meetings are precisely the kinds of behaviours that get you into a situation where the the Information Stores are offline and 500 people are screaming at you. HP and others estimate that 80% of Incidents are caused by poorly managed changes. Think about that - most organisations could save themselves 80% of their incidents by tightening up change control. It sounds like you think "actual work" is fiddling around and tweaking a production system with no forethought as to the consequences.
It's not all about overhead. ITIL as a framework is actually fairly lightweight. You can get away with just the basics in small organisations. For instance if you start maintaining that all changes to production systems require you to document an implementation, in-place testing (verification) and a backout plan if anything goes wrong, you'll start seeing people actually thinking about making a change that could potentially affect 500 people. It leads to less cowboy-ism which is good for uptime.
Companies with no Change or Incident Management generally find themselves constantly fighting fires and not recording what they did to put those fires out. How is the next firefighter going to know what the previous firefighter did when the Information Store fell over? If you had recorded all of the changes made to those Information Stores, then the last few changes are a place to start. Experience shows that implementing even the basics of Incident and Change Management results in an almost instant dramatic decrease in change related incidents.
And if your Incident Manager is ringing you every 2 minutes on a major incident then you have a broken ITIL implementation.
On the non-technical side of things, formal Service Management is a must. If you haven't already, I would strongly recommend formalising the management of incidents, changes, requests etc. with something like ITIL. Without formal change management you'll get breakages caused by change and unhappy customers. Recording incidents (every incident) allows you to build up a picture of where your pain points are with each customer, makes it easy for billing, and if you get the same incident again, and you can look at the resolution of the previous incident for a head start in solving the current one.
You mentioned manual rebuilds etc. It would pay to automate this as much as possible (I'm sure you'll get some responses on this). Quality can often be equated with consistency. If you give your customers the same thing over and over they will know what to expect, even if it's only 80% of everything they need. They'll be much happier in the long run than if you give them brilliant service one day and crap service the next.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that the kick from a firearm happens after the bullet or shot is ejected from the muzzle. Therefore aiming and pulling the trigger on a shotgun or rifle should result in the same accuracy (discounting other factors like predicting the kick (and therefore "compensating") and jerking the firearm as you pull the trigger).
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Yes, Totem is awful. A few months ago I moved from MPlayer to VLC. If you use the skin that comes with VLC (not on by default for some reason), you get very close to WMP functionality. I've never used Media Centre so I can't comment.
apt-get install vlc
Chain Gang Sheriff: (whips Homer) "No listening! You hear me?"
Homer: "Um.... n... no?"
Chain Gang Sheriff: "You just don't learn do ya?"
First they commit their code, then you pay them.
In America, first you write the code, then you get the money, then you get the women!
For years I used old hardware an cobbled together bits to run my home file server. In the end I felt my time was worth more than the constant restarts due to kernel panics (I suspected the motherboard was going) and the constant forced fsck due to a dodgy hard drive.
I few years ago I finally bit the bullet and spent AUD 2K on an Asus TS-300 pedestal server and have never looked back. In Australia they come with a 3y advance replacement warranty but I'm sure that Asus would offer that in other parts of the world. I tweaked my setup a little hardware-wise but the base model is less expensive now at about $1700.
I installed Debian Etch, with software RAID, Apache, Postfix/Dovecot/Ilohamail, Samba, SSH and Jabber. I fine tuned it for about 2 weeks, and then left it alone. I never hear a peep out of that box and it runs everything I need flawlessly.
Industrial strength software on rock solid hardware means no downtime for me (and no more late nights troubleshooting failed hardware). I have sworn that I will never go back to using cobbled bits again unless I'm just playing with it.
Indeed! I've always been fascinated by celestial navigation. I understand how you can use a multitude of landmarks (and stars) to figure out where you are on earth, but what about the vast emptiness of space?
Here's a hypothetical for someone more knowledgable on the subject: if we had a spacecraft capable of faster than light travel (think Starship Trooper troop carriers or Alien quadrilogy mining ships) to actually go somewhere interesting in a few months or even years, how does one go about determining position, attitude (which I guess is relative since there's no "up" or "down" in space), and course?
Would you calibrate it off Earth's known position in space (is it known?) and go from there or could you go off the stars your computer can see and identify - and would they move enough (relative to your position) to give you an accurate speed and direction?
Any JPL/spaceflight engineers out there that can comment?
Here's a serious question I just thought of as a result of your post. I'd like to know from the Christians out there - should we ultimately find intelligent life somewhere out in space or visiting us; and they are decidedly *not* human but intelligent in a "Greetings Terrans..." kind of way - would this affect your belief in god? Would it make you less inclined to believe or more? If you would still believe in god, would you believe that god made our new alien visitors too? Or is god's creation limited to humans?
Answers from all sides of the spectrum welcome (fundamentalists to moderates).
Where will I go for affordable yet decent housewares?
The image associations are not only unique to the user, they're also "hard to forget," the researchers said. "After typing her password several times, a user develops 'muscle memory' and can log in quickly without referring to the inkblot images," they said.
No shit. Type any password enough times your fingers learn where the keys are, even if you're not consciously thinking about what you're typing.
So their aim is to have you look at the inkblots, work out your passwords, type the password until your fingers get it, and then you don't have to look at the inkblots any more No numbers, no mix of uppercase and lowercase, and no punctuation. Doesn't sound particularly
Running APG over a web interface and getting pronouncable, strong passwords which will develop into muscle memory just as easily sounds like a much better solution.
Not to mention the the whole "oh btw, we're storing your associations" bit. It should be painfully obvious that when it comes to security, Microsoft simply doesn't "get it".
To the best of my knowledge, Telstra (the enormous half govt telco here in Australia) were about to start the process of choosing between Linux and Windows for umpteen-thousand desktops right when the SCO saga hit.
Needless to say, Telstra are still predominantly Windows based, and many Telstra employees blame the SCO scaremongering.
Well personally I think the Dallas Mavericks need to improve their front line ball-running and trade players in and out of the game more often if they are to be in with a chance this season. Also, if the Captain Maverick was placed in the middle instead of the front during the offensive plays, they could ensure more runs on the board by getting more stoppages in their favor.
Who are the Dallas Mavericks?
Indeed - maybe he should stick to whatever the hell he's good at, and leave the ISP stuff up to those that actually know what they're talking about.
linuxfoundation.org appears to be a domain squatter site.
./? Hits on these types of sites just encourage domain squatting.
Whois shows:
Last Updated On:26-Oct-2007 19:57:38 UTC
Which is not the same day and month as the creation date, so I'm suspecting either someone has taken this domain over or it wasn't legit in the first place (I don't know as I don't think I've ever been there). Maybe check our links before we post them to the front page on
Way to write an article about a 5W system and then forgetting to tell us the expected battery life.
It doesn't use a battery. The package comes with an AC adapter
I thought GW Bush would be a shoe-in
...the odd war here and there...
You do realise that the US has been at war with someone or other, non-stop, since Korea in the 1950's don't you?
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You're welcome
UPDATE does the obvious, but what the OP neglected was the WHERE clause, which restricts the update to just the rows you want to modify.
So,
update customer_cc set card_number = '1234567890123456';
Will set *every* customer's card_number to '1234567890123456'
It should really be
update customer_cc set card_number = '1234567890123456' where index = 1445;
assuming the column named "index" is a unique identifier for the row (number 1445) you want to change.
It's an easy mistake to make - but it can have devastating consequences.
MMS' sentient alarm clock.
I was in a bar in Ensenada, drinking a warm beer quickly and trying to remind myself that I hadn't murdered anyone, when my alarm clock caught up with me. Little bastard.
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I understand the context in which the word "apology" is being used (as in "justification"), but I had to laugh at the semantics of "apologising for FORTRAN".
82 is a good innings. No matter what you think of FORTRAN as a language, I think it's safe to say that it, and later some of the other really early languages advanced computer science greatly during its infancy. We have a lot to thank Backus for.
I agree. When I started my new job they gave me a list of phones and said choose one. The only one on the list that even came close to the functionality of my trusty 6310 was the 6230. The 6310 went to my wife, but now she has needed to "upgrade" since the 6310's battery keeps disconnecting momentarily, switching off the phone, and the keypad is a bit dodgy from years of (my) abuse. Having said that, the 6230 is no where near as sturdy. I would have loved a new phone in the 6230 form-factor with upgraded processor, color display etc but keeping most of the core "functionality" of the phone. Maybe the mobile companies should do incremental upgrades to the phones instead of ditching the old designs completely every time a new phone comes out.
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You're welcome
Hellfire do you work for a outsourcing company be any chance.>
No, I work for a mining company you've heard of.
Not doing documentation and not holding change approval meetings are precisely the kinds of behaviours that get you into a situation where the the Information Stores are offline and 500 people are screaming at you. HP and others estimate that 80% of Incidents are caused by poorly managed changes. Think about that - most organisations could save themselves 80% of their incidents by tightening up change control. It sounds like you think "actual work" is fiddling around and tweaking a production system with no forethought as to the consequences.
It's not all about overhead. ITIL as a framework is actually fairly lightweight. You can get away with just the basics in small organisations. For instance if you start maintaining that all changes to production systems require you to document an implementation, in-place testing (verification) and a backout plan if anything goes wrong, you'll start seeing people actually thinking about making a change that could potentially affect 500 people. It leads to less cowboy-ism which is good for uptime.
Companies with no Change or Incident Management generally find themselves constantly fighting fires and not recording what they did to put those fires out. How is the next firefighter going to know what the previous firefighter did when the Information Store fell over? If you had recorded all of the changes made to those Information Stores, then the last few changes are a place to start. Experience shows that implementing even the basics of Incident and Change Management results in an almost instant dramatic decrease in change related incidents.
And if your Incident Manager is ringing you every 2 minutes on a major incident then you have a broken ITIL implementation.
On the non-technical side of things, formal Service Management is a must. If you haven't already, I would strongly recommend formalising the management of incidents, changes, requests etc. with something like ITIL. Without formal change management you'll get breakages caused by change and unhappy customers. Recording incidents (every incident) allows you to build up a picture of where your pain points are with each customer, makes it easy for billing, and if you get the same incident again, and you can look at the resolution of the previous incident for a head start in solving the current one.
You mentioned manual rebuilds etc. It would pay to automate this as much as possible (I'm sure you'll get some responses on this). Quality can often be equated with consistency. If you give your customers the same thing over and over they will know what to expect, even if it's only 80% of everything they need. They'll be much happier in the long run than if you give them brilliant service one day and crap service the next.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that the kick from a firearm happens after the bullet or shot is ejected from the muzzle. Therefore aiming and pulling the trigger on a shotgun or rifle should result in the same accuracy (discounting other factors like predicting the kick (and therefore "compensating") and jerking the firearm as you pull the trigger).
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I wish I hadn't clicked on that link.
The goggles... they do NOTHING!
And remember: Dutch people come from the Netherlands *not* the Netherregions