A Umax PowerMac clone, and hard drives. Well ok thats more than two physical things, but you get the idea.
Before I started using linux I had one of the very early Umax Mac clones, and the thing was constantly crashing, and ocasionally not booting. Umax sent a guy out three times till they got it right. Twice with new processors, and once with a whole new mobo (It was the board that was bad btw). At the time I lived in Ames Iowa, there nearest tech was in DesMoines, and thats a hour drive each way. Considering I got the computer on clearence, Umax actually spent more money supporting the product, then I did buying it. THAT is good support. Even though they should have listened and replaced the mobo like I suggested the first time...but I digress.
The other has been hard drives. When I was at school and had a few drives fail on me. I looked up the rma number on the websites, and every manufaturer I tried replaced every drive I claimed was deffective (they all were deffective btw). Maxtors, Western Digitals, Samsungs. And most of the drives were no longer in production when I returned them (remember the bigfoot drives anyone?)
My 2 bits about 2 packages
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Well the two web log analyzers I worked with at my old job were,
WebTrends Professional
and WebSphere Site Analyzer.
Bottom line with WebTrends is, its junk. It costs a bundle, is more expensive for the unix version, and you need one base liscence for the first machine who's logs you want to analyze, plus one supplimental liscence for each additional machine. If your site spans four boxes, you need a base+3 additonal. PRICEY! To boot it is not very configurable, and it has a hellova time counting user sessions by custom cookies.
WebSphere SiteAnalyzer on the other hand is a behmoth of a program. It requires far to many resource to run, takes forever to properly configure, and needs a tweaked version of DB2. On the plus side its highly configurable, and comes "Free" with websphere server afaik. You can count anyting on anything if you really want to, and you don't need to get a special version to do your own querries against the data. All the data is in DB2, so you are free to probe the data all on your lonesome. With Webtrends you need a special version to get access to the database, and then the access is only with their propiretary libs. Of course the other big plus for SiteAnalyzer is that it has a client server model, and the both can run on Linux, Solaris, HPuX, windos..etc.
To be honest those are the two biggies for comercial site analysis software, and neither are that good. Check out some of the OS offerings, prehaps one of them will work for you:)
I'm sorry, but yellow dog never was worth it.
Its just a repackaged linuxPPC that has become VERY source un-friendly. Any release on any platform that isn't compleetly source friendly is just a waste. Now what I'm really waiting for is a Slackware PPC distro...
If you really want to learn the stuff Slackware.
If you just want to get something up asap to play with, and learn how to configure and run a system later, Mandrake and Redhat are OK.
Slack however, is truly for those who want to learn just what's going on. It comes with several services on by default, and the stock Xwindows configuration utiltities, so step by step, you learn just what your doing, and not letting "wizards" do the work for you. Get your X up, get your network configured (ok ok there IS a wizard type application for this one... and I use it I admit... but you have to handle getting the right network driver running all on your own) turn off the services you don't want, rebuild your kernel and your done with your first install... but an educated done.
I can't get to the ftp.slackware.com site from work, but I do know that on some of the public mirrors they go as far back as slack 3.3 (with a 2.0.x kernel) I think on the main slack site, you can get even further back.
This has probably already been said but just in case anyone is counting I'll put in my two cents. PPPoE is not good, but its not bad either. Asside from some oddities it really is what is sounds like, a ppp connection over ethernet. Its up to your provider to give you a static IP, its not a limitation of PPPoE. You can get a PPP dialup connection with a static IP, and if your provider wants to, they can do the same damn thing with PPPoE. Yes its a little slower, because it requires processing, and yes you can't just plug it into your eth0 and have it working. There are several free pppoe clients that you can download and install for linux, Open/Free/NetBSD, and some of the will even compile for Solaris or BeOS. Sure it would be NICE to get a streight connection, but we want low cost high bandwidth, and if thats the way a provider can cut costs to give us high bandwidth, fine by me.
I've spent about $70 so far for Linux, I paid an extra $40 on a scsi card a few years back to get one that had good stable linux drivers, instead of a cheaper one that had no/flakey linux drivers. I count that as spending money on linux (although woudln't you know it, that card works fine in linux and win98, but win2k won't boot with it in..but I digress)
An other was for an $8 copy of LinuxPPC because I had a modem.
The rest? Blank CDRs that I have filled with my favorite distros, and my very own source/binary collections of utilties.
Thats all I've spent on linux in 5.5 years of using it as my primary OS.
In that same time I've spent an estimated >=$350 on windows, by being forced to pay for the bundled win98, winnt and win2k with machines over the years.
And that doesn't even include the money I had to spend for new pci cards when I found out my mac-pci cards woudln't work under Windows. They won't without hacked drivers.... of course they worked off the bat in a linux-based PC.
Sifl&Olly? Where where where? Sorry to be a dork and post offtopic, but where have you found those online? I miss those guys.
Those were some pretty good actors.. I wonder if those socks ever got any more work..
From the same ISP, cable will, in reality, almost always be faster. Saturation is saturation, it only takes longer with 56k modems than it does with cable or xDSL.
Ameritech in the Chicagoland area for instance, has God-awful DSL. Many sites won't come up at all, others have horrific ping times. Using their dialup is no better however. In this case I think they have a f*cked up router or firewall somewhere, and not saturation, (they refuse to admit there is a problem any way you slice it) but the situation would be the same if it were saturation.
My point? Well I guess I'm just saying its the quality of the isp you really need to worry about, more than the type of connection. I'd rather have crappy cable modem service than 56k service myself, but I used to work for a dialup isp back in the day, so I'm pretty good at getting crappy dialups working. Good cable over crappy DSL any day of the week...but good DSL still beats good cable.
Kinda makes you miss your dorm... a 10baseT hookup streight from a partial T3. Ahhh the good times.
Its good to see Sci Fi doing this. There doing for modern science fiction what TNT does for modern westerns. Producing their own passible to good series and movies. I for one thought that the director of the Dune Mini-Series really wanted it to be a play, which is why it didn't turn out as well as it could have. It was still very fun, so i'm hopefull for this one too.
Also, has anyone else heard the rumor that Sci Fi might be showing/co producing a NEW Dr. Who series? God I hope so...just as long as they get a budget of 3000$ per episode. It looses that whole Dr Who feel if its to pricey.
Damn. This means we missed it. Being that Mars is closer to earth this summer than it has been since the Roman empire existed, and in a 3(is that right? I thought it was something like that.) years it will loop around to be even closer than that. Did we just miss the perfect oprotunity for a manned mission to Mars? I think we did. And its not like were going to get another chance at it in a few years either. Two close contacts with Mars in under 5 years, and were to busy underfunding NASA to take full advantage of it.
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This just looks like a neat little project, plus its funny =)
I don't know why they did it as a module, but as a person who has never bothered to read through the apache docs, this little file could serve as a good teaching tool, or in-class programming example.
I know others have already said this, but this is really sad. Yea home consoles are fun..but no where near like the joy of standing for an hour in a dirty arcade. There is just something special about real stand up/only plays one game video games. Not long ago this happend to the pinball table, now its happening to the upright. When our kids are in their twenties (mind you I don't even have any yet) will they be able to drink a beer around an old pinball table in the corner of a local dive? Play video games when the pool tables are taken? God I hope so.
Paralell programming in C++ objects isn't really hard (and paralell programming with Java is even easier). And from their page, this really is just a modified c++ (remember c++ is the language, not the back end. How they impilmented it might be different..but maybe not).
So other than a neat project, is it really worth it? Probably not. Its an extention to a language to handle problems the language can already handle.
Now a rules based extention, that would be neat! Err say, didn't slashdot run an article on a r++ or something like that compiler a few years back? Any updates?
Lets not forget theABC, the first digital computer, built at Iowa State University by researchers from 1937-1942. I'm pretty sure it wasn't general purpose, but hey, it deserves mention at least!
Go cyclones!;)
Eco impacts of excavating the "ice"?
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I wonder how much, if any research has been put into that. The artic is a VERY fragile eco system, so it would be prudent to study the possible effects of excevating the "ice" before doing so. But I didn't see a single reference to this in the article. Worrysome.
If they want to force ecomerce out of their province, let them.
I am an advocate of freedom of speach, and I do think the law is silly in this case, but there are more pressing battles to be fought. These people wern't arrested, they wern't censored, and they wern't forced out of buisness.
They did break local law, as silly as it may be.
As long as the local goverment doesn't try to fine sites hosted outside of the province for being displayed inside the province without a french option, its just not worth worrying about.
What I've seen with some of the portible mini-disk players, is that they doubble as data drives.
I bought my sister a portable MD player for her birthday last year, compleete with a usb cable to transfer mp3's and other computer formats to the drive. It said it could play mp3's, really what it ment was that the software translated mp3's to uncompressed audio tracks and wrote it to the disk. That was the only thing that pissed me off. I digress however.
The cool thing was when I read through the docs, it said that the driver-disk contained drivers that could read and write data to the disk!
I've looked up a few other ones since then, even some parralell port versions, and lots of them do this. The only problem is that I can't find linux drivers for any. I would love to use one of these little things as a replacement for my usb cdrom. here's a link to the MD player I was dealing with, good luck! Maybe an older one with a parrlell port interface would be easier to hack drivers for?
True, but remember, Henry Ford only invented the assembly line for autos. Assembly line production was previously used in many places, the earliest I can recall (so there are probably earlier) was a 19th century tackle factory in England.
I'm sorry I couldn't help replying, even though the origonal poster was obviously a troll.
And the Europeans (from whom you are all descended BTW) invented radio, television, electricity, the computer, canned food, the hot air balloon, penicillin, the railroad, the automobile, even those beloved GUNS that you are so enamoured with.
Now I don't know about the television, or the railroad. However electricity was always around. Modern use of ac electricity however was developed, and many of the devices invented by Tesla, an american citizen. Same with Radio. The myth that Marconi inventied it has been disproved many times over. Those are american inventions.
For the hot air balloon, try asia, they might not have had people in the balloons, but they had it first. Again with guns, first in asia, they gave them up as worthless and little better than toys. Europeans simply went farther with idea.
Canned food, try England (I think), they generally don't consider themselves part of the continent.
As for the computer, which definiton of computer? Depending on the definition, its either England, America, America, Germany, Germany or France. There have been some great slashdot articles on the subject, so do your reading.
One last thing, for the space race, the funding came from the US and the USSR, but +80% of the engineers were German born bred and educated, but rescued/kidnapped after WWII. I hardly think either the USSR or the US can take full credit for the first man in space for that reason.
Is there anything moraly wrong with it? No, vague maybe, but not wrong.
This is not moraly vague beacuse its altering genetics, its vague because of very limited knowledge of mitocondrial dna. The bulk of dna research done to date as been concerning cromosonal dna. The effects of altering or swapping mitocondria are incredibly unknown do to very little research in that area. There is still debate in the scientific community as to what exactly mitocondria do.
We konw some of what they do, and some of how they work, but have far from a complete picture of evertying they do, or all of how they work. We don't even know when and where we got them. It's plain that we just dont know enough about them for this to have been a scientific experiment.
For actually giving in to Rambus? Its news like this (and yesterdays avian carrier internet proticol) that makes being a geek happy.
Hopefully there will be a suit about the Quake Like Games soon, and we can cheer when worlds.com looses. Well we can hope.
Just when I thought I'd never use another Microsoft product at home again...they went and did something that might make me actually boot their OS voluntarily! Hehe. Well, maybe.
Well to be honest, good. Everyone needs a project to work on, and if somone wants to hack on an operating system, groovy. That means there a better coder than me... or at least more ambitious. The only thing is, I'm sad there so down on the GPL. AFAIK the only thing the GPL limits you to is closing the source, and selling your colosed source derviates without including the source (hence closed source. OK I'm getting redundant). Still another OS, another phiolosphy, and another Unix. I'll probably never use it (Unless the m4 microkernel is ported to hardware that NetBSD isn't) but its still a neat project.
..I just wonder what compiler the'll use since gcc is, well, gpl'd.
Slashdot Mirror
A Umax PowerMac clone, and hard drives. Well ok thats more than two physical things, but you get the idea.
Before I started using linux I had one of the very early Umax Mac clones, and the thing was constantly crashing, and ocasionally not booting. Umax sent a guy out three times till they got it right. Twice with new processors, and once with a whole new mobo (It was the board that was bad btw). At the time I lived in Ames Iowa, there nearest tech was in DesMoines, and thats a hour drive each way. Considering I got the computer on clearence, Umax actually spent more money supporting the product, then I did buying it. THAT is good support. Even though they should have listened and replaced the mobo like I suggested the first time...but I digress.
The other has been hard drives. When I was at school and had a few drives fail on me. I looked up the rma number on the websites, and every manufaturer I tried replaced every drive I claimed was deffective (they all were deffective btw). Maxtors, Western Digitals, Samsungs. And most of the drives were no longer in production when I returned them (remember the bigfoot drives anyone?)
Well the two web log analyzers I worked with at my old job were,
:)
WebTrends Professional
and WebSphere Site Analyzer.
Bottom line with WebTrends is, its junk. It costs a bundle, is more expensive for the unix version, and you need one base liscence for the first machine who's logs you want to analyze, plus one supplimental liscence for each additional machine. If your site spans four boxes, you need a base+3 additonal. PRICEY! To boot it is not very configurable, and it has a hellova time counting user sessions by custom cookies.
WebSphere SiteAnalyzer on the other hand is a behmoth of a program. It requires far to many resource to run, takes forever to properly configure, and needs a tweaked version of DB2. On the plus side its highly configurable, and comes "Free" with websphere server afaik. You can count anyting on anything if you really want to, and you don't need to get a special version to do your own querries against the data. All the data is in DB2, so you are free to probe the data all on your lonesome. With Webtrends you need a special version to get access to the database, and then the access is only with their propiretary libs. Of course the other big plus for SiteAnalyzer is that it has a client server model, and the both can run on Linux, Solaris, HPuX, windos..etc.
To be honest those are the two biggies for comercial site analysis software, and neither are that good. Check out some of the OS offerings, prehaps one of them will work for you
I'm sorry, but yellow dog never was worth it.
Its just a repackaged linuxPPC that has become VERY source un-friendly. Any release on any platform that isn't compleetly source friendly is just a waste. Now what I'm really waiting for is a Slackware PPC distro...
If you really want to learn the stuff Slackware.
If you just want to get something up asap to play with, and learn how to configure and run a system later, Mandrake and Redhat are OK.
Slack however, is truly for those who want to learn just what's going on. It comes with several services on by default, and the stock Xwindows configuration utiltities, so step by step, you learn just what your doing, and not letting "wizards" do the work for you. Get your X up, get your network configured (ok ok there IS a wizard type application for this one... and I use it I admit... but you have to handle getting the right network driver running all on your own) turn off the services you don't want, rebuild your kernel and your done with your first install... but an educated done.
I can't get to the ftp.slackware.com site from work, but I do know that on some of the public mirrors they go as far back as slack 3.3 (with a 2.0.x kernel) I think on the main slack site, you can get even further back.
Slack is GOOD, and good for you.
I'm confused, its not april first, slashdot didn't get compromised did it? I mean this HAS to be a joke? Right? Right?
OHH GOD TELL ME ITS A JOKE!!!
This has probably already been said but just in case anyone is counting I'll put in my two cents. PPPoE is not good, but its not bad either. Asside from some oddities it really is what is sounds like, a ppp connection over ethernet. Its up to your provider to give you a static IP, its not a limitation of PPPoE. You can get a PPP dialup connection with a static IP, and if your provider wants to, they can do the same damn thing with PPPoE. Yes its a little slower, because it requires processing, and yes you can't just plug it into your eth0 and have it working. There are several free pppoe clients that you can download and install for linux, Open/Free/NetBSD, and some of the will even compile for Solaris or BeOS. Sure it would be NICE to get a streight connection, but we want low cost high bandwidth, and if thats the way a provider can cut costs to give us high bandwidth, fine by me.
I've spent about $70 so far for Linux, I paid an extra $40 on a scsi card a few years back to get one that had good stable linux drivers, instead of a cheaper one that had no/flakey linux drivers. I count that as spending money on linux (although woudln't you know it, that card works fine in linux and win98, but win2k won't boot with it in..but I digress)
.... of course they worked off the bat in a linux-based PC.
An other was for an $8 copy of LinuxPPC because I had a modem.
The rest? Blank CDRs that I have filled with my favorite distros, and my very own source/binary collections of utilties.
Thats all I've spent on linux in 5.5 years of using it as my primary OS.
In that same time I've spent an estimated >=$350 on windows, by being forced to pay for the bundled win98, winnt and win2k with machines over the years.
And that doesn't even include the money I had to spend for new pci cards when I found out my mac-pci cards woudln't work under Windows. They won't without hacked drivers
Sifl&Olly? Where where where? Sorry to be a dork and post offtopic, but where have you found those online? I miss those guys.
Those were some pretty good actors.. I wonder if those socks ever got any more work..
From the same ISP, cable will, in reality, almost always be faster. Saturation is saturation, it only takes longer with 56k modems than it does with cable or xDSL.
Ameritech in the Chicagoland area for instance, has God-awful DSL. Many sites won't come up at all, others have horrific ping times. Using their dialup is no better however. In this case I think they have a f*cked up router or firewall somewhere, and not saturation, (they refuse to admit there is a problem any way you slice it) but the situation would be the same if it were saturation.
My point? Well I guess I'm just saying its the quality of the isp you really need to worry about, more than the type of connection. I'd rather have crappy cable modem service than 56k service myself, but I used to work for a dialup isp back in the day, so I'm pretty good at getting crappy dialups working. Good cable over crappy DSL any day of the week...but good DSL still beats good cable.
Kinda makes you miss your dorm... a 10baseT hookup streight from a partial T3. Ahhh the good times.
Its good to see Sci Fi doing this. There doing for modern science fiction what TNT does for modern westerns. Producing their own passible to good series and movies. I for one thought that the director of the Dune Mini-Series really wanted it to be a play, which is why it didn't turn out as well as it could have. It was still very fun, so i'm hopefull for this one too.
Also, has anyone else heard the rumor that Sci Fi might be showing/co producing a NEW Dr. Who series? God I hope so...just as long as they get a budget of 3000$ per episode. It looses that whole Dr Who feel if its to pricey.
Damn. This means we missed it. Being that Mars is closer to earth this summer than it has been since the Roman empire existed, and in a 3(is that right? I thought it was something like that.) years it will loop around to be even closer than that. Did we just miss the perfect oprotunity for a manned mission to Mars? I think we did. And its not like were going to get another chance at it in a few years either. Two close contacts with Mars in under 5 years, and were to busy underfunding NASA to take full advantage of it.
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This just looks like a neat little project, plus its funny =)
I don't know why they did it as a module, but as a person who has never bothered to read through the apache docs, this little file could serve as a good teaching tool, or in-class programming example.
Hehe. I like.
I know others have already said this, but this is really sad. Yea home consoles are fun..but no where near like the joy of standing for an hour in a dirty arcade. There is just something special about real stand up/only plays one game video games. Not long ago this happend to the pinball table, now its happening to the upright. When our kids are in their twenties (mind you I don't even have any yet) will they be able to drink a beer around an old pinball table in the corner of a local dive? Play video games when the pool tables are taken? God I hope so.
It looks pretty neat, BUT...
Paralell programming in C++ objects isn't really hard (and paralell programming with Java is even easier). And from their page, this really is just a modified c++ (remember c++ is the language, not the back end. How they impilmented it might be different..but maybe not).
So other than a neat project, is it really worth it? Probably not. Its an extention to a language to handle problems the language can already handle.
Now a rules based extention, that would be neat! Err say, didn't slashdot run an article on a r++ or something like that compiler a few years back? Any updates?
Lets not forget the ABC, the first digital computer, built at Iowa State University by researchers from 1937-1942. I'm pretty sure it wasn't general purpose, but hey, it deserves mention at least! Go cyclones! ;)
I wonder how much, if any research has been put into that. The artic is a VERY fragile eco system, so it would be prudent to study the possible effects of excevating the "ice" before doing so. But I didn't see a single reference to this in the article. Worrysome.
If they want to force ecomerce out of their province, let them.
I am an advocate of freedom of speach, and I do think the law is silly in this case, but there are more pressing battles to be fought. These people wern't arrested, they wern't censored, and they wern't forced out of buisness.
They did break local law, as silly as it may be.
As long as the local goverment doesn't try to fine sites hosted outside of the province for being displayed inside the province without a french option, its just not worth worrying about.
What I've seen with some of the portible mini-disk players, is that they doubble as data drives.
l e/ mdwalkmanrtm/pctomd/mz-r37sppc_specs.shtml
I bought my sister a portable MD player for her birthday last year, compleete with a usb cable to transfer mp3's and other computer formats to the drive. It said it could play mp3's, really what it ment was that the software translated mp3's to uncompressed audio tracks and wrote it to the disk. That was the only thing that pissed me off. I digress however.
The cool thing was when I read through the docs, it said that the driver-disk contained drivers that could read and write data to the disk!
I've looked up a few other ones since then, even some parralell port versions, and lots of them do this. The only problem is that I can't find linux drivers for any. I would love to use one of these little things as a replacement for my usb cdrom. here's a link to the MD player I was dealing with, good luck! Maybe an older one with a parrlell port interface would be easier to hack drivers for?
http://www.sel.sony.com/SEL/consumer/ss5/portab
True, but remember, Henry Ford only invented the assembly line for autos. Assembly line production was previously used in many places, the earliest I can recall (so there are probably earlier) was a 19th century tackle factory in England.
I'm sorry I couldn't help replying, even though the origonal poster was obviously a troll.
And the Europeans (from whom you are all descended BTW) invented radio, television, electricity, the computer, canned food, the hot air balloon, penicillin, the railroad, the automobile, even those beloved GUNS that you are so enamoured with.
Now I don't know about the television, or the railroad. However electricity was always around. Modern use of ac electricity however was developed, and many of the devices invented by Tesla, an american citizen. Same with Radio. The myth that Marconi inventied it has been disproved many times over. Those are american inventions.
For the hot air balloon, try asia, they might not have had people in the balloons, but they had it first. Again with guns, first in asia, they gave them up as worthless and little better than toys. Europeans simply went farther with idea.
Canned food, try England (I think), they generally don't consider themselves part of the continent.
As for the computer, which definiton of computer? Depending on the definition, its either England, America, America, Germany, Germany or France. There have been some great slashdot articles on the subject, so do your reading.
One last thing, for the space race, the funding came from the US and the USSR, but +80% of the engineers were German born bred and educated, but rescued/kidnapped after WWII. I hardly think either the USSR or the US can take full credit for the first man in space for that reason.
Is there anything moraly wrong with it? No, vague maybe, but not wrong.
This is not moraly vague beacuse its altering genetics, its vague because of very limited knowledge of mitocondrial dna. The bulk of dna research done to date as been concerning cromosonal dna. The effects of altering or swapping mitocondria are incredibly unknown do to very little research in that area. There is still debate in the scientific community as to what exactly mitocondria do.
We konw some of what they do, and some of how they work, but have far from a complete picture of evertying they do, or all of how they work. We don't even know when and where we got them. It's plain that we just dont know enough about them for this to have been a scientific experiment.
For actually giving in to Rambus? Its news like this (and yesterdays avian carrier internet proticol) that makes being a geek happy. Hopefully there will be a suit about the Quake Like Games soon, and we can cheer when worlds.com looses. Well we can hope.
Just when I thought I'd never use another Microsoft product at home again...they went and did something that might make me actually boot their OS voluntarily! Hehe. Well, maybe.
Yet Another BSD?
... or at least more ambitious. The only thing is, I'm sad there so down on the GPL. AFAIK the only thing the GPL limits you to is closing the source, and selling your colosed source derviates without including the source (hence closed source. OK I'm getting redundant). Still another OS, another phiolosphy, and another Unix. I'll probably never use it (Unless the m4 microkernel is ported to hardware that NetBSD isn't) but its still a neat project.
Well to be honest, good. Everyone needs a project to work on, and if somone wants to hack on an operating system, groovy. That means there a better coder than me
..I just wonder what compiler the'll use since gcc is, well, gpl'd.