I had a conversation with Dell last week about a RAID problem on one of my servers, which runs Debian. The (well-spoken, knowledgeable) guy in Malaysia didn't know much about Debian but had some intelligent questions about it and how the server was configured, and shipped me a replacement disk overnight to New Zealand. No problems about the server running Linux whatsoever.
Nice work, that's very cool! It looks to me as if the photographer is wearing dark clothes and sitting just to the left (from our point of view) of the white rectangle that I assume is the camera flash. Presumably the camera is on a tripod.
Hey, it works... thanks v much for that. OK, well that kinda makes the point then, for a basic photographic workflow, GIMP is entirely usable if not yet perfect.
Yep I've used Selection->Feather, but on my version of GIMP (v2 for Windows) at least it's limited to 100 pixels, which isn't nearly enough. Maybe it's just a limit that could be set differently and recompiled.
I've certainly found the Gimp "clumsy and underpowered" in the past, but on my current workstation I don't have Photoshop and I've been using the Gimp 2 for some basic photo editing tasks, and it's actually not too bad. For the general digital photo workflow of crop, curves/colour/contrast correct, resize, sharpen, output it'll almost do what I want. Currently my only gripe with it is that you can't get a selection with a really huge feather in order to selectively lighten or darken bits of a photo, but I guess that'll arrive some day. Oh and there's no real keyboard shortcuts I can find on the Windows version.
If I had the spare cash I'd still buy Photoshop but it's nice knowing that Gimp will do the job. And it'll presumably only get better from here.
What do you think might have given some of the publishers a backbone?
If you read the article you'll see it's because Office 2007 fucks up equations and some Greek characters, and documents can't be further revised or published in the journals after they've passed through this version of Office. It's not an ideological battle, it's that the software doesn't allow them to publish those papers properly.
Mod parent up! I'm using a La Pavoni Professional these days since my 35-year old Europiccola finally blew up, but once you get the hang of a lever machine there's nothing like it.
I'm using Thunderbird 2.0. First go and create a new tag called "Spam?" that's coloured light grey. Then create a new message filter: if "From" "isn't in my address book" "Personal Address Book", then "Tag Message" with "Spam?". All done.
My complete rule also has a couple of exceptions, e.g. Debian Security postings are from all sorts of folks not in my address book, so I exclude those from the rule.
That's a nice rule - actually just the "Sender is not in my address book" rule is now knocking out the last few spam that make it through to me. Instead of moving them, I grey them out in Thunderbird so I don't have to notice them until I'm ready (also, obviously there are a fair few false positives that need weeding out). It's working really nicely though, I don't have to pick the spam out of the email I want to read.
My wife used to do support for a large Australian chain of travel agencies. One of the branches had a network outage just after midday every day. The temp was unplugging the router to plug in the toasted sandwich maker...
I've got a '92 Audi which has realtime gas usage displayed and yes, it changes how you drive if you pay attention to it. I've learned a few things from it (including exactly how much you save by tailing large trucks closely on the motorway... roughly 2 l/100km in this car or about 20-25%)
I wouldn't buy another car without this feature, it's just essential.
People running Apache are starting to see this junk in their logs:
Starting to see? That's been there for years. There's also something that MSN/Windows Messenger requests which contains the logged-on user's username (possibly only for users in a corporate environment). I just set my log analysis scripts to ignore all that junk. If you have a verbose 404 message on your server you could also trim it down to a minimal response for these requests if it's bothering you.
This story in the NZ Herald today says that Ribena sales are falling sharply. This'll be a textbook case on how to kill a brand (and in NZ, Australia and I think the UK Ribena is a very strong brand going back decades).
Personally, I was always put off by the "Ribena Berries" ad on TV where the berries are all drinking Ribena. Which if you think about it is berry cannibalism. Disturbing indeed.
Probably the opposite, there's extremely low unemployment in NZ and Australia at the moment. I've always assumed that our generally lower rates of Firefox/Safari/Opera et al compared to other stats I've seen is partly that a large percentage of people are hitting our sites from their current job on corporate machines, which are locked down and running IE (peak times also correlate to business hours pretty well).
Safari and Opera may be relatively small, but they're gaining as well.
I don't see this. I look after about 20 recruitment websites in Australasia across a number of industry sectors. (The sites are almost all designed and tested for a wide range of browsers, screen sizes and platforms so I'm not trying to exclude anyone at all.)
IE is still a solid 85-86% on our sites, with Firefox breaking the 10% barrier recently. Firefox has been slowly and steadily growing in an almost perfect linear fashion during the whole time I've been running these sites, but a fair bit of that growth seems to have come at the expense of other "alternative browsers". Things like the Mozilla suite and Netscape 6+ are dropping completely off the graphs now. Opera now barely ever registers more than half a percent, and Safari has been fixed at about 1.6 - 1.8% for a long time even though Mac usage has (just) broken the 2% mark.
PlayStation 2 - Played every PlayStation game, huge success
Don't think so. I don't own very many PS1 games, but of those Driver barely loads on the PS2 and crashes very quickly, and (the excellent and hugely under-rated) Terracon doesn't work at all. I don't think that PS2 backwards compatibility was all it was cracked up to be and I found that very annoying when I bought a PS2.
I've had to stop using FF as my main browser because I simply can't reliably copy and paste URL's from the address bar or, frequently, text from anywhere else in Firefox's UI. I've tried to find a place to report a bug or more likely add to an existing bug report, and I get stuck in a maze of twisty little bugs, all the same.
Apart from this supremely frustrating bug, Firefox is great and I look forward to 2.0. Until then, well, Opera is growing on me and it's really really fast.
I hadn't realised that Ruby/Rails has very weak Unicode support. I worked my way through the (excellent) tutorial and discovered that when you enter any unusual characters (e.g. something really dastardly like "café"), either Ruby or the Rails framework silently drops that character and everything after it on the floor.
I thought at first that it must have been MySQL's fault but a few experiments show that MySQL 4.1 will happily store and retrieve high-order characters.
This would seem to limit Ruby/Rails a bit for real-world stuff, wouldn't it? I assume you can still go and develop your own classes that handle UTF-8 correctly but that cuts down the appeal a bit.
There's some nice ideas in there, but I think I'll stick to Python and the very nice CherryPy 2.0.
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Any list of wonders that excludes Angkor Wat is a waste of time.
+1 damn straight.
So go look at pictures of Antarctica, and pick your favorite plant from there.
Lichens and cryptoendoliths. OK, let's go!
I had a conversation with Dell last week about a RAID problem on one of my servers, which runs Debian. The (well-spoken, knowledgeable) guy in Malaysia didn't know much about Debian but had some intelligent questions about it and how the server was configured, and shipped me a replacement disk overnight to New Zealand. No problems about the server running Linux whatsoever.
Nice work, that's very cool! It looks to me as if the photographer is wearing dark clothes and sitting just to the left (from our point of view) of the white rectangle that I assume is the camera flash. Presumably the camera is on a tripod.
Layers were introduced in Photoshop 3.0.
Hey, it works... thanks v much for that. OK, well that kinda makes the point then, for a basic photographic workflow, GIMP is entirely usable if not yet perfect.
Yep I've used Selection->Feather, but on my version of GIMP (v2 for Windows) at least it's limited to 100 pixels, which isn't nearly enough. Maybe it's just a limit that could be set differently and recompiled.
I've certainly found the Gimp "clumsy and underpowered" in the past, but on my current workstation I don't have Photoshop and I've been using the Gimp 2 for some basic photo editing tasks, and it's actually not too bad. For the general digital photo workflow of crop, curves/colour/contrast correct, resize, sharpen, output it'll almost do what I want. Currently my only gripe with it is that you can't get a selection with a really huge feather in order to selectively lighten or darken bits of a photo, but I guess that'll arrive some day. Oh and there's no real keyboard shortcuts I can find on the Windows version.
If I had the spare cash I'd still buy Photoshop but it's nice knowing that Gimp will do the job. And it'll presumably only get better from here.
What do you think might have given some of the publishers a backbone?
If you read the article you'll see it's because Office 2007 fucks up equations and some Greek characters, and documents can't be further revised or published in the journals after they've passed through this version of Office. It's not an ideological battle, it's that the software doesn't allow them to publish those papers properly.
Mod parent up! I'm using a La Pavoni Professional these days since my 35-year old Europiccola finally blew up, but once you get the hang of a lever machine there's nothing like it.
I'm using Thunderbird 2.0. First go and create a new tag called "Spam?" that's coloured light grey. Then create a new message filter: if "From" "isn't in my address book" "Personal Address Book", then "Tag Message" with "Spam?". All done.
My complete rule also has a couple of exceptions, e.g. Debian Security postings are from all sorts of folks not in my address book, so I exclude those from the rule.
That's a nice rule - actually just the "Sender is not in my address book" rule is now knocking out the last few spam that make it through to me. Instead of moving them, I grey them out in Thunderbird so I don't have to notice them until I'm ready (also, obviously there are a fair few false positives that need weeding out). It's working really nicely though, I don't have to pick the spam out of the email I want to read.
My wife used to do support for a large Australian chain of travel agencies. One of the branches had a network outage just after midday every day. The temp was unplugging the router to plug in the toasted sandwich maker...
I've got a '92 Audi which has realtime gas usage displayed and yes, it changes how you drive if you pay attention to it. I've learned a few things from it (including exactly how much you save by tailing large trucks closely on the motorway... roughly 2 l/100km in this car or about 20-25%)
I wouldn't buy another car without this feature, it's just essential.
People running Apache are starting to see this junk in their logs:
Starting to see? That's been there for years. There's also something that MSN/Windows Messenger requests which contains the logged-on user's username (possibly only for users in a corporate environment). I just set my log analysis scripts to ignore all that junk. If you have a verbose 404 message on your server you could also trim it down to a minimal response for these requests if it's bothering you.
This story in the NZ Herald today says that Ribena sales are falling sharply. This'll be a textbook case on how to kill a brand (and in NZ, Australia and I think the UK Ribena is a very strong brand going back decades).
Personally, I was always put off by the "Ribena Berries" ad on TV where the berries are all drinking Ribena. Which if you think about it is berry cannibalism. Disturbing indeed.
Probably the opposite, there's extremely low unemployment in NZ and Australia at the moment. I've always assumed that our generally lower rates of Firefox/Safari/Opera et al compared to other stats I've seen is partly that a large percentage of people are hitting our sites from their current job on corporate machines, which are locked down and running IE (peak times also correlate to business hours pretty well).
Safari and Opera may be relatively small, but they're gaining as well.
I don't see this. I look after about 20 recruitment websites in Australasia across a number of industry sectors. (The sites are almost all designed and tested for a wide range of browsers, screen sizes and platforms so I'm not trying to exclude anyone at all.)
IE is still a solid 85-86% on our sites, with Firefox breaking the 10% barrier recently. Firefox has been slowly and steadily growing in an almost perfect linear fashion during the whole time I've been running these sites, but a fair bit of that growth seems to have come at the expense of other "alternative browsers". Things like the Mozilla suite and Netscape 6+ are dropping completely off the graphs now. Opera now barely ever registers more than half a percent, and Safari has been fixed at about 1.6 - 1.8% for a long time even though Mac usage has (just) broken the 2% mark.
PlayStation 2 - Played every PlayStation game, huge success
Don't think so. I don't own very many PS1 games, but of those Driver barely loads on the PS2 and crashes very quickly, and (the excellent and hugely under-rated) Terracon doesn't work at all. I don't think that PS2 backwards compatibility was all it was cracked up to be and I found that very annoying when I bought a PS2.
I've had to stop using FF as my main browser because I simply can't reliably copy and paste URL's from the address bar or, frequently, text from anywhere else in Firefox's UI. I've tried to find a place to report a bug or more likely add to an existing bug report, and I get stuck in a maze of twisty little bugs, all the same.
Apart from this supremely frustrating bug, Firefox is great and I look forward to 2.0. Until then, well, Opera is growing on me and it's really really fast.
When XP (as of SP2) doesn't have a password on an account it doesn't allow network access to the machine with that user
Not true, sorry. I have a freshly-installed XP (Pro) SP2 home machine with a couple of users, no passwords. It uses the network quite happily.
I hadn't realised that Ruby/Rails has very weak Unicode support. I worked my way through the (excellent) tutorial and discovered that when you enter any unusual characters (e.g. something really dastardly like "café"), either Ruby or the Rails framework silently drops that character and everything after it on the floor.
I thought at first that it must have been MySQL's fault but a few experiments show that MySQL 4.1 will happily store and retrieve high-order characters.
This would seem to limit Ruby/Rails a bit for real-world stuff, wouldn't it? I assume you can still go and develop your own classes that handle UTF-8 correctly but that cuts down the appeal a bit.
There's some nice ideas in there, but I think I'll stick to Python and the very nice CherryPy 2.0.
And the only way to keep a monopod standing is to either prop it up, or ram it into the ground really hard. I vote the latter in SCO's case.
All hail the first Slash poster for some considerable time who can correctly spell 'ridiculous'!!
> Those DOS memory limits were fun...
Trying to stay within DOS limits? Now try staying within the Commodore PET limits (16kb), then we'll talk!