The UK has a good London - North train network. For about £10 - £15 you can get a ticket from London to Leeds and vice versa, and it only takes 2hrs.
That is a hugely optimistic best case scenario, both on the fare and the journey time. Maybe if you booked it months in advance, traveled at "super off peak" times, and stuck rigidly to the service you have booked you could get from London to Leeds for £15. But probably not. I've just priced the journey up on National Rail Enquiries and the walk-up non-advance fare is £84. Travel in peak times and that will go up to £134.
Is there any way to show network and disk usage (read/writes)? IANA programmer, but if that would be possible it would be awesome. I suspect that a lot of the slowdown I'm seeing comes from the hard drive or network, not CPU/RAM.
Seconded, and yes it should be possible, at least on newer Linux kernels.. it's all in/proc!
While I'm here, some more suggestions for JohnFluxx (thanks!): * An option to show recently-terminated processes - you know the annoying ones that appear, steal some resource, and terminate all before you can pin them down and find out what's going on. * Functionality to visualise much more detail about process when right-clicking on them - would be very nice to have some of the data in/proc presented visually * lsof-like functionality on a per-process basis would be awesome, especially if it shows network connections too.
The reason that sysadmins can be unpopular even with other nerds is because it's all too common for them to come across as having shitty attitudes, even if they are good at their job and do all the things you've just described. I've been a sysadmin for about 5 years and have worked both with developers that I'm supporting and with more senior sysadmins, so I'm familiar with both "sides" of the matter. Sysadmins are often in a fairly unique position in the organisations that they work for in that they are usually the only person there who can do certain tasks; everyone comes to them with requests, all day, some of them reasonable and some of them not; they have the final veto on lots of technical decisions, and they have their finger on the big red button both literally and metaphorically. This inevitably feeds the alpha-geek megalomania and bolsters the ego. Patience wears thin and fuses get short, and if you're having a bad day it's sometimes very hard to stop yourself snapping at your colleagues when you get a particularly frustrating request or interruption (which more often than not isn't even the other person's fault). I've been on the giving and receiving end of such behaviour before and either way, it's not pleasant for either party. A good sysadmin who's nice to people and not an egotistical dick* will get appreciated every day, not just on July 31st. If that isn't the case then you're probably working with dicks and might want to think about moving jobs.
*this isn't particuarly aimed at the parent, just a general observation.
Awww screw your damned flying car, where are my holographic discs already!!! I got lots of stuff to back up, you got lots of stuff to back up, we all got tons of stuff to back up people! We got all these big fricking drives and haven't had an affordable optical backup medium since DVD! Don't give me that Blu Ray crap either, as we all know that was Sony's way of pushing lots of DRM. Last i checked you can't even play a burnt BD on a set top BD player, or watch BD movies on your PC! So instead of something made by a media company trying to push their multimedia DRM crap, how about a nice holographic disc made from the start for data like DVD was. Then it will become popular, the media companies will be forced to go with it since BD will end up another Laserdisc, and we can all be happy with nice shiny 400+ holodiscs.
Last time I looked into Hyperic HQ (around last November I think) it seemed to be all talk and no trousers. I was also put off by the big fat Java agent that you have to install on the servers you want to monitor.
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That does not help. Saying "well, you can just compile in support for ____" shouldn't be acceptable in this day and age. You shoudn't have to compile in support for a given piece of hardware into a player: this is why we have things called "drivers" and "APIs".
That's what the 'API' part of VAAPI is:-)
There's nothing wrong with having compile-time options in open-source software. It's the job of the package and distribution maintainers to abstract this kind of thing away from end users. It'll be a while before this 1.0.0 release filters down to users' desktops through their package managers, which you could wait for and not have to worry about it (this is certainly what I'll be doing)... but if you want the latest and greatest direct from the developers as soon as it's released then you can't complain about having to get your hands a bit dirty.
I think Linux and Windows can both do this quite easily in software... but why bother? JBOD is the worst of both worlds when it comes to storage arrays. You have all the risk of losing everything if one drive dies, without gaining the performance benefits that RAID 0's striping gives you. Hard disks are cheap enough for a 2TB RAID 10 array to be affordable.
Yes this was quite a predictable comment, but someone had to say it..
For me the best thing about being able to see the Milky Way is the sense of perspective you get from the realisation of what it is you're looking it in relation to where you are. Next time you get to see the Milky Way, think about how the galaxy is in a flat-ish plane, and how you and the band you are seeing are both in the same plane. Once you think about it, you mentally orientate yourself in this plane and it starts to mess with your perception of what's "up" and what's "down". The discrepancy between the local "up and down" that you experience on Earth and the bigger "up and down" you see from the Milky Way puts things into perspective in quite a powerful way, in that you stop seeing the sky as a big mass of stars and start to see how you + the Earth fits in to the bigger picture. Of course this may all be obvious to a lot of people here on/. but it isn't to most non-nerds, so if you're on a camping trip and want to impress your mates (or a girl..), try this, it works great;)
It might not be a physical addition like nicotine, alcohol, or hard drugs, but it is still an addiction.
Indeed, the majority of addictions are psychological, this goes for most recreational drugs too whether 'hard', 'soft', legal or illegal. The obvious exceptions are opiates like heroin where there are actual physiological effects from withdrawal.
Yeah, the network stuff in SANE sucks, I was trying to get it working myself last week, without success.. this is in fact what gave me the idea for the web frontend. The SheevaPlug is just a really nifty device to host it on.
So far, i've only seen units designed for use in the US, which means they have a physically incompatible plug (and thus require a bulky adapter) and require 110V whereas european sockets provide 240V...
According to the feature list, it handles 100-240VAC/50-60Hz. So you may need a plug adapter, but the voltage isn't an issue.
Something like this, doesn't really add any significant cost, or bulk. Shipping to the UK was an extra $35 last time I looked.
I'm planning to try making one of these into a scanner server. It could potentially turn any plain old USB scanner into a network-attached scanner, using the vast array of SANE drivers available.
Initially it should be very easy just to run an instance of saned, which lets SANE frontends talk to the backend over a TCP socket. A more ambitious project would be to combine the SheevaPlug with a web-based SANE frontend... the only one I could find was phpSANE but it seems to be a dead project...
You already have socialism: it is government that grants these companies their exclusive monopolies. Why do you think that a bigger, more intrusive monopoly will lead to improvement? Take the monopoly away, don't strengthen it.
That's not socialism, though.
The important difference between a publicly-run network and a privately-run network is that the public network is not run with the intention of generating maximum profits for the shareholders, but rather for the public good. Financially speaking, it's fine if it breaks even. Fast fibre connections into every home would also have many secondary economic benefits to the community that are harder to quantify than a company's balance sheet. Yes it's technically a monopoly, but many of the reasons for a monopoly being a bad thing no longer exist. There would also be nothing to stop telcos from building their own private networks alongside the public one. Given the choice between a public monopoly and a private one, I'd rather have the public one every time.
I would possibly like to see such a public network run as a wholesale service whereby the service providers buy capacity and resell it with their own packages. This would completely level out the playing field and make true market competition possible. This is evident in the way that the incumbent telcos are trying to get bills passed to prevent this from happening; they are scared shitless by the possibility that the power they have to completely rape their customers for as much money as possible for as shoddy service as they can get away with, would be neutralised.
What, money is measured in iPods now? Maybe its output should also be measured in iPods it can power instead of megawatts?
Yes. The iPod will also be used as a unit of mass, volume, length, time (assuming a particular capacity and bitrate), and data (it's much more practical quantity than the LoC).
A chart of conversions from metric and imperial is available from the Apple Store.. it's not cheap though
You could avoid a clean install from DOS 6 -> Win3.10 -> Win3.11 -> Win95 -> Win98 (-> WinME) -> WinXP -> Vista -> Win 7. 1992 to 2009.
Heh, not if you were actually using the system for anything else, back in the Win95 days I was reinstalling it every other week as the slightest thing caused it to shit itself. But this sounds like a semi-interesting way to kill a few hours with VirtualBox:)
Connecting your computer to the internet using your phone as a data modem.
Well, I've been doing this on and off for about, hmm, 7 years? But it's great that Apple have now reinvented it and given it a hip name, as the feature can now officially exist. Go Apple!
99% of all now-dead lifeforms on this planet consumed oxygen for the majority of their lifetime. It is clearly a toxic substance that must be controlled!
Oxygen's unpaired electrons make it one of the most reactive and corrosive substances known to man. This makes it one of the key components in bombs and other explosive devices. Need more be said? Ban oxygen now... our childrens' future depends on it!
This is great, but I find the csh syntax easier to use from the command line (however unsafe it is to use in scripts). Will they add a csh compatability mode to bash?
ln -s/bin/false/bin/csh
99% of the functionality of csh, without the bugs!
kola...isn't that a KDE program? Then again, shouldn't this whole release be KDE-only? I mean, it's all K's...
I long for the day that Canonical take KDE seriously. As I understand it, they only have a handful of people working on the KDE packages, and it really shows. For example, even if you install from the Kubuntu CD, GNOME gets installed as well, and Firefox's file associations are all to GNOME apps.
The transition from KDE 3 to KDE 4 has also been horrible - I kind of regret upgrading my work PC to Intrepid.
It's almost enough to make me try OpenSuSE... or switch to GNOME. But not quite;)
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The UK has a good London - North train network. For about £10 - £15 you can get a ticket from London to Leeds and vice versa, and it only takes 2hrs.
That is a hugely optimistic best case scenario, both on the fare and the journey time. Maybe if you booked it months in advance, traveled at "super off peak" times, and stuck rigidly to the service you have booked you could get from London to Leeds for £15. But probably not. I've just priced the journey up on National Rail Enquiries and the walk-up non-advance fare is £84. Travel in peak times and that will go up to £134.
Is there any way to show network and disk usage (read/writes)? IANA programmer, but if that would be possible it would be awesome. I suspect that a lot of the slowdown I'm seeing comes from the hard drive or network, not CPU/RAM.
Seconded, and yes it should be possible, at least on newer Linux kernels.. it's all in /proc!
$ cat /proc/`pidof someprocess`/io /proc/`pidof someprocess`/net/netstat
$ cat
While I'm here, some more suggestions for JohnFluxx (thanks!): /proc presented visually
* An option to show recently-terminated processes - you know the annoying ones that appear, steal some resource, and terminate all before you can pin them down and find out what's going on.
* Functionality to visualise much more detail about process when right-clicking on them - would be very nice to have some of the data in
* lsof-like functionality on a per-process basis would be awesome, especially if it shows network connections too.
Nice.
I'm a big fan of 192.88.99.1...
The reason that sysadmins can be unpopular even with other nerds is because it's all too common for them to come across as having shitty attitudes, even if they are good at their job and do all the things you've just described. I've been a sysadmin for about 5 years and have worked both with developers that I'm supporting and with more senior sysadmins, so I'm familiar with both "sides" of the matter. Sysadmins are often in a fairly unique position in the organisations that they work for in that they are usually the only person there who can do certain tasks; everyone comes to them with requests, all day, some of them reasonable and some of them not; they have the final veto on lots of technical decisions, and they have their finger on the big red button both literally and metaphorically. This inevitably feeds the alpha-geek megalomania and bolsters the ego. Patience wears thin and fuses get short, and if you're having a bad day it's sometimes very hard to stop yourself snapping at your colleagues when you get a particularly frustrating request or interruption (which more often than not isn't even the other person's fault). I've been on the giving and receiving end of such behaviour before and either way, it's not pleasant for either party. A good sysadmin who's nice to people and not an egotistical dick* will get appreciated every day, not just on July 31st. If that isn't the case then you're probably working with dicks and might want to think about moving jobs.
*this isn't particuarly aimed at the parent, just a general observation.
Awww screw your damned flying car, where are my holographic discs already!!! I got lots of stuff to back up, you got lots of stuff to back up, we all got tons of stuff to back up people! We got all these big fricking drives and haven't had an affordable optical backup medium since DVD!
Don't give me that Blu Ray crap either, as we all know that was Sony's way of pushing lots of DRM. Last i checked you can't even play a burnt BD on a set top BD player, or watch BD movies on your PC! So instead of something made by a media company trying to push their multimedia DRM crap, how about a nice holographic disc made from the start for data like DVD was. Then it will become popular, the media companies will be forced to go with it since BD will end up another Laserdisc, and we can all be happy with nice shiny 400+ holodiscs.
Here you go - although it's not out yet...
Last time I looked into Hyperic HQ (around last November I think) it seemed to be all talk and no trousers. I was also put off by the big fat Java agent that you have to install on the servers you want to monitor.
That does not help. Saying "well, you can just compile in support for ____" shouldn't be acceptable in this day and age. You shoudn't have to compile in support for a given piece of hardware into a player: this is why we have things called "drivers" and "APIs".
That's what the 'API' part of VAAPI is :-)
There's nothing wrong with having compile-time options in open-source software. It's the job of the package and distribution maintainers to abstract this kind of thing away from end users. It'll be a while before this 1.0.0 release filters down to users' desktops through their package managers, which you could wait for and not have to worry about it (this is certainly what I'll be doing)... but if you want the latest and greatest direct from the developers as soon as it's released then you can't complain about having to get your hands a bit dirty.
I think Linux and Windows can both do this quite easily in software... but why bother? JBOD is the worst of both worlds when it comes to storage arrays. You have all the risk of losing everything if one drive dies, without gaining the performance benefits that RAID 0's striping gives you. Hard disks are cheap enough for a 2TB RAID 10 array to be affordable.
Yes this was quite a predictable comment, but someone had to say it..
For me the best thing about being able to see the Milky Way is the sense of perspective you get from the realisation of what it is you're looking it in relation to where you are. Next time you get to see the Milky Way, think about how the galaxy is in a flat-ish plane, and how you and the band you are seeing are both in the same plane. Once you think about it, you mentally orientate yourself in this plane and it starts to mess with your perception of what's "up" and what's "down". The discrepancy between the local "up and down" that you experience on Earth and the bigger "up and down" you see from the Milky Way puts things into perspective in quite a powerful way, in that you stop seeing the sky as a big mass of stars and start to see how you + the Earth fits in to the bigger picture. Of course this may all be obvious to a lot of people here on /. but it isn't to most non-nerds, so if you're on a camping trip and want to impress your mates (or a girl..), try this, it works great ;)
It might not be a physical addition like nicotine, alcohol, or hard drugs, but it is still an addiction.
Indeed, the majority of addictions are psychological, this goes for most recreational drugs too whether 'hard', 'soft', legal or illegal. The obvious exceptions are opiates like heroin where there are actual physiological effects from withdrawal.
Yeah, the network stuff in SANE sucks, I was trying to get it working myself last week, without success.. this is in fact what gave me the idea for the web frontend. The SheevaPlug is just a really nifty device to host it on.
So far, i've only seen units designed for use in the US, which means they have a physically incompatible plug (and thus require a bulky adapter) and require 110V whereas european sockets provide 240V...
According to the feature list, it handles 100-240VAC/50-60Hz. So you may need a plug adapter, but the voltage isn't an issue.
Something like this, doesn't really add any significant cost, or bulk. Shipping to the UK was an extra $35 last time I looked.
I'm planning to try making one of these into a scanner server. It could potentially turn any plain old USB scanner into a network-attached scanner, using the vast array of SANE drivers available.
Initially it should be very easy just to run an instance of saned, which lets SANE frontends talk to the backend over a TCP socket. A more ambitious project would be to combine the SheevaPlug with a web-based SANE frontend... the only one I could find was phpSANE but it seems to be a dead project...
Interesting that you assume all the executives are straight males. Who's not being PC here again?
It's hard to see this kind of thing getting dreamed up by anything other than a group of straight males.
You already have socialism: it is government that grants these companies their exclusive monopolies. Why do you think that a bigger, more intrusive monopoly will lead to improvement? Take the monopoly away, don't strengthen it.
That's not socialism, though.
The important difference between a publicly-run network and a privately-run network is that the public network is not run with the intention of generating maximum profits for the shareholders, but rather for the public good. Financially speaking, it's fine if it breaks even. Fast fibre connections into every home would also have many secondary economic benefits to the community that are harder to quantify than a company's balance sheet. Yes it's technically a monopoly, but many of the reasons for a monopoly being a bad thing no longer exist. There would also be nothing to stop telcos from building their own private networks alongside the public one. Given the choice between a public monopoly and a private one, I'd rather have the public one every time.
I would possibly like to see such a public network run as a wholesale service whereby the service providers buy capacity and resell it with their own packages. This would completely level out the playing field and make true market competition possible. This is evident in the way that the incumbent telcos are trying to get bills passed to prevent this from happening; they are scared shitless by the possibility that the power they have to completely rape their customers for as much money as possible for as shoddy service as they can get away with, would be neutralised.
What, money is measured in iPods now? Maybe its output should also be measured in iPods it can power instead of megawatts?
Yes. The iPod will also be used as a unit of mass, volume, length, time (assuming a particular capacity and bitrate), and data (it's much more practical quantity than the LoC).
A chart of conversions from metric and imperial is available from the Apple Store.. it's not cheap though
You could avoid a clean install from DOS 6 -> Win3.10 -> Win3.11 -> Win95 -> Win98 (-> WinME) -> WinXP -> Vista -> Win 7. 1992 to 2009.
Heh, not if you were actually using the system for anything else, back in the Win95 days I was reinstalling it every other week as the slightest thing caused it to shit itself. But this sounds like a semi-interesting way to kill a few hours with VirtualBox :)
Why do carriers hate tethering so much?
Bits are bits, whether the phone's OS uses them or a tethered laptop.
I've got a feeling that it's less to do with bandwidth (they have plenty of it, really) and more to do with this...
The best thing about Alzheimer's is that you can hide your own easter eggs.
And glue it to the lid. There you go.
Yes. For extra man-points, use jizz instead of glue.
Wtf is tethering?
Connecting your computer to the internet
using your phone as a data modem.
Well, I've been doing this on and off for about, hmm, 7 years? But it's great that Apple have now reinvented it and given it a hip name, as the feature can now officially exist. Go Apple!
Hmm.. I find it does the right-click thing on my iMac but it might be 'cause the Mighty Mouse is so awful.
I've started using bash for file management instead of Finder because I can't trust the mouse to accidentally move folders etc.
Have you not considered getting a nice Logitech mouse or something? The latest "MX Revolution" mice are very pleasant to use, and work fine in OS X...
Boycott oxygen!
99% of all now-dead lifeforms on this planet consumed oxygen for the majority of their lifetime. It is clearly a toxic substance that must be controlled!
Oxygen's unpaired electrons make it one of the most reactive and corrosive substances known to man. This makes it one of the key components in bombs and other explosive devices. Need more be said? Ban oxygen now... our childrens' future depends on it!
This is great, but I find the csh syntax easier to use from the command line (however unsafe it is to use in scripts). Will they add a csh compatability mode to bash?
ln -s /bin/false /bin/csh
99% of the functionality of csh, without the bugs!
kola...isn't that a KDE program? Then again, shouldn't this whole release be KDE-only? I mean, it's all K's...
I long for the day that Canonical take KDE seriously. As I understand it, they only have a handful of people working on the KDE packages, and it really shows. For example, even if you install from the Kubuntu CD, GNOME gets installed as well, and Firefox's file associations are all to GNOME apps.
The transition from KDE 3 to KDE 4 has also been horrible - I kind of regret upgrading my work PC to Intrepid.
It's almost enough to make me try OpenSuSE... or switch to GNOME. But not quite ;)