Bah! Emacs and Xemacs have been able to do this for at least the last half-decade. It works over the X network protocol. It's not buzzword compliant, like Rendezvous, but it's very very effective.
For the sake of completeness, in Xemacs, the command is: M-x make-frame-on-display
I shudder at the thought of only a command line to configure and admin it all...
My unix servers are all deployed without X, and I doubt they are any less featurefull than standard out-of-the-box W2K.
You know what? I administer them all remotely without a GUI. And I administer all of them in a prettymuch automated fashion that is very difficult to reach using Windows GUIs.
I can't see why. Because its marked as Beta? It never stopped me from deploying anything, as long as there's sufficient internal testing and a handy backup plan.
On my experience, on my platform (SuSE 7.3, Apache 2 PHP 4.3) it works marvelously as long as you stick to the old prefork MPM -- PHP isn't designed with pthreads in mind.
1. Docs here. Everything you need is there. Install is straightforward in most distros, and very simple to do from source if you have the inclination to do it.
2. Wrong assumption. You can do whatever maintenance tasks you want without stopping the db. It's been like that since at least 7.0.
3. Nice point, if it affects you. Postgresql isn't native windows yet (it's in beta stage). It runs on all other unices, however...
4. Plenty of those for pg. It's not a problem.
5. This is a crying shame, because if apps used SQL'92 you'd be free to choose database. If an app requires MySQL, then you *need* MySQL, and the whole RDBMS choice problem can't be placed.
Bloody good question - anyone out there got any good fool-proof methods for curing hiccups? Usual hiccups are OK, even if they last half an hour, but those really annoying ones that actually cause pain - they're the ones I want to know how to get rid of.
My own personal technique is: Breathe in deeply. Hold on your breath for as long as possible (don't mind if you hiccup during this). Sometimes, rarely, I need to repeat the procedure once.
One other variant involves drinking a full glass of water slowly -- which just has the side effect of making you hold your breath.
I have no idea what makes it work. I believe its the fact that I'm both disrupting the normal breathing cycle and actively concentrated on it...
The thing that pushes ppl to Linux and Open Source is the price.
I beg to differ. No it is not. I can get a free copy of windows easier and quicker than any linux distro. I have paid more for my SuSE CDs than I ever (willingly) paid to Microsoft for software.
Want it or not, OSS is better in a lot of areas. It might not be as UI-polished as MS, but for me that is somewhat down in the scale of priorities.
Who would want use and a disgruntled OS if they may get nice box, nice gradient buttons, stylish consistent GUI for a reasonable price?
Can you get Windowmaker running on windows? No? Scrap them gradient buttons -- they aren't worth a crap.
It showed us exactly what? It is more standards compliant than any other browser out there. Its fast enough. It runs on more platforms than any other browser out there. It took less time to write than its direct competitor (IE6 took over six years, Moz took less than five years).
More than anything else, Mozilla's well thought architecture managed to build a WORA platform with a strategy different from Java's -- with better quality for desktop apps, I dare say.
It would take several hands to count the number of artists that I've discovered (and purchased music from) due to finding the MP3s on my friends/family's computers.
And here lies the danger of P2P to record companies. They are the middle-men. They are the ones who control *who* is the next big-hit, who gets airtime, who goes on display. If people stop needing them to filter good bands out of all the garage teens playing today, their business will be no more (since artists won't see a benefit in signing for a label).
I have no idea if the NAS uses linux. I do know for sure that their WiFi routers and home gateways do run linux. And more, they run linux with excellent support: constant software updates, new features, etc. Linksys does have the expertise to do the NAS with linux, and I'd be surprised if they did otherwise (therefore paying the MS tax).
If we did that, then it wouldn't take 100+ years, now wouldn't it? Actually, probably the greatest thing we could do for the world would be to rip apart a lot of countries and remake them. Unfortunately, it's not that simple.
Actually, it would. You can't forcefully grow civilizations. Much as individuals, civilizations evolve, and must grow at their own pace. There's no guarantee that democracy will be the end result in the middle-east, or in African countries or in the East. The evolution will suit their own particular characteristics. For some, democracy is one valid stage. Lots of them have assimilated it naturally. None will take democracy by force. Ripping a country apart would destroy the natural evolution and would set the country back hundreds of years, reconstructing social fabric.
What I find amusing is trying to find where in my post you decided I was advocating that. Nah, you're not someone who reads their own biases into things. Nah.
It was the last alternative. You don't specify what you need the military for, in an exploratory endeavour. I can't actually believe one can suppose military actions to be a need for exploration. Military force is the only option left.
My own country, Portugal, perhaps the greatest explorer people mankind ever saw (back in the 14th and 15th centuries), spawned an era of exploration without military actions. You see, we were at the time ~3 million people, and exploration by force was impossible. Scientific evolution did not need the military for anything, and empire building was done by culture mix with the natives, not by assimilation (contrary to spanish actions at the time, and brit actions later on).
Holland is building one useless freight railroad from nowhere to nowhere, and another high-speed train line that will cut the Amsterdam-Paris journey by an impressive 15 minutes. Total cost for these two projects? 15 billion Euro's. 15 frikkin' billion Euro's for two useless projects. A 1000 Euro's from every Dutch citizen. Just think what we could have done with this money in the area of science, education, medicine... or these Space missions.
Oh, don't feel so bad. Here in Portugal, our excellent leaders are planning a TGV line between Porto and Lisbon. There is already a high speed pendular railroad, so the time cut is around 15min. A whopping quarter of an hour. And they've redrawn the project so many times that the Spanish decided to go ahead and build their own goddamn rail network without taking communication with our trains into account.
Without the (U.S.) military, we would quickly fall from civilization to barbarism.
OH MY GOD! Did I miss an irony marker, or do you really believe that?
Maybe someday when all countries are stable democracies we won't need the military anymore...
So, since other countries are not democracies, we should land there, tear the country apart and impose a democracy on the people. Patiently, please clearly ellaborate on the differences between this kind of "evangelism" and Europen Crusades.
It IS rude, to be sure. But then again, if Europe is aiming to have a world-class rocket program of their own, then they should be prepared to take the heat.
ESA isn't aiming... It already has a world class rocket program. I don't know current figures, but in 99/2000 Arianespace had ~50% of world launch market.
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That means that the interest rates are controlled centrally for the good of europe (i.e. probably by the Bundesbank; which constitutionally has to act for the good of Germany, rather than the good of Britain, or even Europe; since it is by far the biggest bank).
For Christ's sake, I hope you're American and thus naturally ignorant of "abroad stuff". I do hope you're not a Brit.
Tax rates, currency deployment and allowed budget deficits are controlled by the European Central Bank.
Obviously, your ISP is technically incompetent. Comercially, it makes no sense limiting the type of connections allowed. Security-wise, they're finding rope to hang themselves. Their customers will do what you're attempting: hide under HTTP a slew of other protocols, introducing inefficiencies and insecurity.
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In Linux, you can use Ctrl-Tab. It doesn't work on Windows, but it must surely be a pref whose default is platform-dependant.
For the sake of completeness, in Xemacs, the command is:
M-x make-frame-on-display
Argh, I have it somewhere. Oh, here it is. One of the best rants from Jamie "Rant" Zawinski.
What's all the fuss about benchmarks? It's just like dick length: don't fret over it. If she's all cuddly and smiling in the end, it's big enough.
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Painless! :-)
You know what? I administer them all remotely without a GUI. And I administer all of them in a prettymuch automated fashion that is very difficult to reach using Windows GUIs.
On my experience, on my platform (SuSE 7.3, Apache 2 PHP 4.3) it works marvelously as long as you stick to the old prefork MPM -- PHP isn't designed with pthreads in mind.
1. Docs here. Everything you need is there. Install is straightforward in most distros, and very simple to do from source if you have the inclination to do it.
2. Wrong assumption. You can do whatever maintenance tasks you want without stopping the db. It's been like that since at least 7.0.
3. Nice point, if it affects you. Postgresql isn't native windows yet (it's in beta stage). It runs on all other unices, however...
4. Plenty of those for pg. It's not a problem.
5. This is a crying shame, because if apps used SQL'92 you'd be free to choose database. If an app requires MySQL, then you *need* MySQL, and the whole RDBMS choice problem can't be placed.
if you want "No More Hiroshimas" then I say "You First. No More Pearl Harbors."
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Mahatma GandhiOne other variant involves drinking a full glass of water slowly -- which just has the side effect of making you hold your breath.
I have no idea what makes it work. I believe its the fact that I'm both disrupting the normal breathing cycle and actively concentrated on it...
Want it or not, OSS is better in a lot of areas. It might not be as UI-polished as MS, but for me that is somewhat down in the scale of priorities.
Can you get Windowmaker running on windows? No? Scrap them gradient buttons -- they aren't worth a crap.More than anything else, Mozilla's well thought architecture managed to build a WORA platform with a strategy different from Java's -- with better quality for desktop apps, I dare say.
I have no idea if the NAS uses linux. I do know for sure that their WiFi routers and home gateways do run linux. And more, they run linux with excellent support: constant software updates, new features, etc. Linksys does have the expertise to do the NAS with linux, and I'd be surprised if they did otherwise (therefore paying the MS tax).
http://linksys.com/products/group.asp?grid=35&scid =43
My own country, Portugal, perhaps the greatest explorer people mankind ever saw (back in the 14th and 15th centuries), spawned an era of exploration without military actions. You see, we were at the time ~3 million people, and exploration by force was impossible. Scientific evolution did not need the military for anything, and empire building was done by culture mix with the natives, not by assimilation (contrary to spanish actions at the time, and brit actions later on).
But, hey... TGVs are cool
Tax rates, currency deployment and allowed budget deficits are controlled by the European Central Bank.
You'll be meta-moderated accordingly
Worse than that, there's a whole slew of "good" programs in ZoneAlarms view. Check this article on Infoworld.
Jump boats.