Cool site. Thanks about the extra capacity and sorry about the traffic. You run a LAMP stack on Debian Squeeze at Rackspace from what i see. Anything special in your setup?
I've been riding in MTL for the last 2 winters.
No problems once the snow plows have done their work. (My German studded tyres helps also...)
Dressing for winter biking is super easy: just add one or more layer. Add one thermal layer under a soft-shell and voila!, you're good till minus 15C. Less than that, add another thermal layer.
You'd be surprise how toasty you can get only by pushing on pedals. Temperature and wind are not worse than when you do cross-country sking. Nothing heroic...
The only hard parts is the hands: you need really good gloves mittens and more than one type. I usually go for a multi-layer system.
Once the temperature falls below -25C (I work the night shift): your bike will fall apart faster than you will. Everything gets brittle at these temps. You even have to stop shifting gears.... But this happens like 3 nights a year...
If you're stuck in M$ land and want to sniff what your exquisitly byzantine dhtml app is POSTing back to the server, this tool comes quite handy. It acts as a proxy (so it works with whatever browser your using) with a GUI to follow HTTP exchanges in real time. Nice.
I have a P2110. Very small. Widescreen LCD, 1280x768. Gorgeous screen. Just a bit over 3 pounds. DVD/CD-RW. 802.11b. Firewire. TV/VGA out. Runs Linux just fine. Transmeta 866MHz CPU (hello Linus). Long battery life (up to a full working day using a hi-cap battery and a modular bay battery.
Have a look at leog.net for lots of info on running Linux on these machines.
But it comes with an closed-source OS though, like 99% of the notebook in this class. Tough.
It might be possible to get a standard class notebook free of MS licences, but I doubt you can find one in the subnotebook class.
And I doubt that Apple will sell you one of those nice 12" TiBook without the OS so that you can put Yellow Dog on it. Call it the Cupertino tax...
what do I have to do to try the beta of Evolution? Give up my system over to the Ximian package cruncher? Will I still have a functionnal Kde? Last time I checked, Ximian mangled my installation and just simply "simplified" my menus.
Shoudn't there be an alternative between tarballs and "All my rpms are belong to Ximian"?
I would like to try the latest release of that sofware, but I sure don't want to nuke my system...
is it normal that i need to set up a virtual machine in vmware just to check out a mail software?
The idea that man is equal to God, and believes he can put himself on an equal footing with the Divine Creator himself is just the sort of ridiculous notion that could only come from the USA.
that would be the greeks by way of the french. try praying when noisy people are citing Voltaire on their cell phones...
I'm an old fart. I was raised in a family with paper terminals, REAL VT100's and such. I didn't gave a d.... about computers. Then came January 1984 and my father came back home from work with issue 1 of MacWorld (how a DEC field engineer got a Macintosh magazine at work is still bugging me). At the time, I was studying classics. I didn't gave a fart about computers. Sure I had a spiffy TI99/4A. Sure I had access to PDP/15's and Vaxen and I could play ADVENT as much as I could care. But computers were so remote to me.
But once I had a Mac, and a functional GUI, I could use those computers to my benefits. I could create special fonts to denote prosody in Latin poetry. I could do fancy layout for translating ancient french text. I could use HyperCard to manage my bank of text references.
Now about Eazel, Kde and Gnome...
First, KDE. Yes, it's the most stable desktop on Linux. But the GUI sucks so BAD. Typography is all out of whack (as in Gnome). What's the use of building a desktop manager if it gives headaches to its users. Is their idea of a GUI a ripoff of another ripoff of another ripoff? (PARC begets Mac begets Win begets KDE). The operative words here are blatant emulation. Where is the creativity? What do I gain as a user. An ersatz? Sure, "it's linux", but is that an excuse for that sorry mockup of a bad gui? I DO appreciate the stability though. But if I want the original, I might as well stick with Win2K with its own idiosyncrasies.... (I'm being the devil's advocate here. But you have to put yourself in the mindset of the user sometimes.)
Then there was Gnome. And the licensing debate. Gnome is the most promising effort. But I fear that it is succombing to bloatware syndrome. Plus installing the latest Ximian branded version leaves a very bitter redmond aftertaste in my mouth (ooops, no more kde apps and redhat apps in your menus after installation, no questions asked. Oh and by the way, there is no uninstall and all your rpm's are belong to us). And yes, I COULD build the friggin' thing myself. But spending two day resolving libraries dependencies is not my cup of tea.
And then there was Eazel. Yes they spent more on branding than on coding. Yes their business plan sucked. Yes they had a way of giving a workout to my VM subsystem. BUT THEY at least were trying to think outside the box. Like GNOME, they suffered from corporate branding syndrome. But,if you know how to traverse a hash of arrays or if you grok LISP, I'm afraid you won't get this: Us users, yes those miserable, mediocre l00sEr3 want something that will make our day. Easel, though buggy and as agile as dbase IV (meaning an elephant) was at least a step in the good direction.
So as a user, this day in one of mourning. Linux is still the best developement and server platform (with those nice BSD's distros). But this is a step backwards in my book.
sourceoffsite is just another client for MS SourceSafe that works over IP. It`s for offsite access to your sourcesafe databases using tcp/ip and encryption. You still need a SourceSafe server as the engine. So it`s not "much, much better", it`s the same.
We have wireless at the office. We previously had ISDN, then ADSL. We moved into a turn of the century old factory located at the worst possible location (boundary between two telco centrals). We tried ADSL, SDSL, but nothing worked as spec'ed.
We went wireless, max. 4Mbps up and down. Ping are quite satisfactory. They installed fiber from the antenna to our offices (BIG factory.
There ARE slowdown during the day, but I don't know if it's a lack of bandwidth at our providers premises or just the internet usual daytime congestion.
Our provider is maxlink.net. No I'm not affiliated with these guys. But we're satisfied.
Crossing the aether:
27 packets transmitted, 27 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = 2.728/2.879/3.226/0.144 ms
2 - think speakers first. Go listen to them. Find a good Brick and Mortar store. Take your time. Buy there and you'll benefit a lot in long term (upgrades, demos, etc.)
3 - room acoustics is a BIG factor.
I have a Denon receiver (2800) and Paradigm speakers (being canadian, i could get them cheap).
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Cool site. Thanks about the extra capacity and sorry about the traffic. You run a LAMP stack on Debian Squeeze at Rackspace from what i see. Anything special in your setup?
sharkdotted
Security through obscu^H^H^H^H^H lethargy
Dressing for winter biking is super easy: just add one or more layer. Add one thermal layer under a soft-shell and voila!, you're good till minus 15C. Less than that, add another thermal layer.
You'd be surprise how toasty you can get only by pushing on pedals. Temperature and wind are not worse than when you do cross-country sking. Nothing heroic...
The only hard parts is the hands: you need really good gloves mittens and more than one type. I usually go for a multi-layer system.
Once the temperature falls below -25C (I work the night shift): your bike will fall apart faster than you will. Everything gets brittle at these temps. You even have to stop shifting gears.... But this happens like 3 nights a year...
As long as the servers' edges are round...
Not a dupe. This one is about the Second Foundation.
Your comprehensive knowledge of Céline Dion's oeuvre is disturbing.
If you're stuck in M$ land and want to sniff what your exquisitly byzantine dhtml app is POSTing back to the server, this tool comes quite handy. It acts as a proxy (so it works with whatever browser your using) with a GUI to follow HTTP exchanges in real time. Nice.
Best battles descriptions ever. Of course, you had to be there ...
A complete porting HOW-TO is available here.
Accept the email then scan it and notify concerned parties -> BAD.
Refuse the message by giving an SMTP 5xx error instead of a 250 after the DATA part -> GOOD.
Personnaly, I like the exim+exiscan combo.
I have a P2110. Very small. Widescreen LCD, 1280x768. Gorgeous screen. Just a bit over 3 pounds. DVD/CD-RW. 802.11b. Firewire. TV/VGA out. Runs Linux just fine. Transmeta 866MHz CPU (hello Linus). Long battery life (up to a full working day using a hi-cap battery and a modular bay battery.
Have a look at leog.net for lots of info on running Linux on these machines.
But it comes with an closed-source OS though, like 99% of the notebook in this class. Tough.
It might be possible to get a standard class notebook free of MS licences, but I doubt you can find one in the subnotebook class.
And I doubt that Apple will sell you one of those nice 12" TiBook without the OS so that you can put Yellow Dog on it. Call it the Cupertino tax...
As spotted on linitx.org: 7in x 7in P4 mobo
Should be much CHEAPER to build a system than the one refered in this article...
80G native, 160G compressed. Scsi ultra 2 lvd, 'round 10G an hour tranfer rate.
AFAIK, vmware could gain by funding the DRI
what do I have to do to try the beta of Evolution? Give up my system over to the Ximian package cruncher? Will I still have a functionnal Kde? Last time I checked, Ximian mangled my installation and just simply "simplified" my menus. Shoudn't there be an alternative between tarballs and "All my rpms are belong to Ximian"? I would like to try the latest release of that sofware, but I sure don't want to nuke my system... is it normal that i need to set up a virtual machine in vmware just to check out a mail software?
that would be the greeks by way of the french. try praying when noisy people are citing Voltaire on their cell phones...
But once I had a Mac, and a functional GUI, I could use those computers to my benefits. I could create special fonts to denote prosody in Latin poetry. I could do fancy layout for translating ancient french text. I could use HyperCard to manage my bank of text references.
Now about Eazel, Kde and Gnome...
First, KDE. Yes, it's the most stable desktop on Linux. But the GUI sucks so BAD. Typography is all out of whack (as in Gnome). What's the use of building a desktop manager if it gives headaches to its users. Is their idea of a GUI a ripoff of another ripoff of another ripoff? (PARC begets Mac begets Win begets KDE). The operative words here are blatant emulation. Where is the creativity? What do I gain as a user. An ersatz? Sure, "it's linux", but is that an excuse for that sorry mockup of a bad gui? I DO appreciate the stability though. But if I want the original, I might as well stick with Win2K with its own idiosyncrasies.... (I'm being the devil's advocate here. But you have to put yourself in the mindset of the user sometimes.)
Then there was Gnome. And the licensing debate. Gnome is the most promising effort. But I fear that it is succombing to bloatware syndrome. Plus installing the latest Ximian branded version leaves a very bitter redmond aftertaste in my mouth (ooops, no more kde apps and redhat apps in your menus after installation, no questions asked. Oh and by the way, there is no uninstall and all your rpm's are belong to us). And yes, I COULD build the friggin' thing myself. But spending two day resolving libraries dependencies is not my cup of tea.
And then there was Eazel. Yes they spent more on branding than on coding. Yes their business plan sucked. Yes they had a way of giving a workout to my VM subsystem. BUT THEY at least were trying to think outside the box. Like GNOME, they suffered from corporate branding syndrome. But,if you know how to traverse a hash of arrays or if you grok LISP, I'm afraid you won't get this: Us users, yes those miserable, mediocre l00sEr3 want something that will make our day. Easel, though buggy and as agile as dbase IV (meaning an elephant) was at least a step in the good direction.
So as a user, this day in one of mourning. Linux is still the best developement and server platform (with those nice BSD's distros). But this is a step backwards in my book.
sourceoffsite is just another client for MS SourceSafe that works over IP. It`s for offsite access to your sourcesafe databases using tcp/ip and encryption. You still need a SourceSafe server as the engine. So it`s not "much, much better", it`s the same.
We went wireless, max. 4Mbps up and down. Ping are quite satisfactory. They installed fiber from the antenna to our offices (BIG factory. There ARE slowdown during the day, but I don't know if it's a lack of bandwidth at our providers premises or just the internet usual daytime congestion.
Our provider is maxlink.net. No I'm not affiliated with these guys. But we're satisfied.
Crossing the aether:
2 - think speakers first. Go listen to them. Find a good Brick and Mortar store. Take your time. Buy there and you'll benefit a lot in long term (upgrades, demos, etc.)
3 - room acoustics is a BIG factor.
I have a Denon receiver (2800) and Paradigm speakers (being canadian, i could get them cheap).