Windows 7 finally got me excited about Microsoft OSes again.
You know, I've seen this phrase pop up from a lot of people, I'm sure only some of them all shills. Your OS shouldn't be exciting, it's just a platform to launch a tool on, and those tools are increasingly more platform-agnostic.
* 2D map with status of all nodes or submaps, organized by network
That's not a "pro". My organisation isn't a network shop, and 99% of the faults we have are nothing to do with networks, either physical or virtual. More use would be a map of the building showing the max/min/average temperature in each apps room, but ultimatly I don't really care about things that are normal and working, only things that are abnormal or not working.
Access control using at least LDAP and Active Directory
Any system using a webserver should be able to do that. Most proprietary ones we've tried can't, they have their own user managment (despite running off IIS)
I appreciate that it is physically impossible for you to travel the posted speed limit. But you don't have the right to block traffic. Here in California, you are legally required to pull over if you are unable to drive the posted speed limit and there are 5 or more cars behind you.
Here in the UK the speed limit is just that, a limit for perfect conditions. Anyone blindly driving at the speed limit is showing no regard for the conditions and should be banned.
Of course, in a nose-to-tail tailback I assume that means you have to pull over, you aren't travelling at the speed limit, and there are more than 5 cars behind you.
This is true whether you're driving an antique car or a broken car or a bicycle. If you must ride so that you block traffic, do so briefly.
This is called the primary position. Responsible cyclists take this position when they can't be safely overtaken (usually at dangerous, artificial pinch points)
If you reach a stop light, let the traffic that you blocked go past you when it turns green.
Generally in Europs it's different, but we don't worship at the alter of the car. Certainly in London, you'll find the average speed of a bike outside of rush hour is about the same as that of a car. You might find a car reaches a top speed of 5 or 10mph more, but will simply spend longer waiting at lights, or behind the car in front.
In rush hour of course, theres no choice, bikes out perform cars by an order of magnitude.
Pootling around the town I live, I'm often held up by cars on the ride from home to the station, traffic isn't particularly bad either.
I find that hard to believe (the "great basis" part -- I am sure lots of people have tried and thought they succeeded). Which of the guarantees that TCP gives you are you prepared to give up for file transfer?
The theory is that with high bandwidth, high latency, and low loss, you can do more intelligent checksumming and rate detection than TCP
(Note that you're not allowed to give up performance for other users in the network.)
That's not what our management want, and they seem to think Signiant will magically get their 30mbit video file transfering over a 256kbit uplink in realtime.
Your American cars must be crap. I've just replaced an 18 year old citreon (still on the drive), with a 12 year old nissan. The Citreon's probably got another 5 years of servicable life left, but mileage has dropped below 45mpg (needs a good service really, It's not had an oil change for 3 years, I tend to run cars into the ground.
Of course the conditions is kept/driven in make a big difference, and listening to Slashdot, the USA is made up of cities where it's -50C one day, and 40C the next. You need snow chains and AC, and every journey you guys make involves lugging 2 tons of luggage. Strange world.
I mean, lets be honest no one really uses OSX Server for anything really mission critical that relies on it for the kind of storage capabilities ZFS would provide. Do they? Feel free to correct me with real world usage senarios of OSX Server ( I haven't heard of much).
I guess XSans may use it. I don't know much about them to be honest, another department at work has a small one for FCP editing. Seems to me that it's the same as any old san.
given that the Linux community's refusal to support it has been an enormous thorn in its side.
Unfortunately it's incompatable with the linux kernel license (not to claim which is more free, or who's to blame). There's a fuse project, but fuse projects don't tend to go in places where zfs does.
I use vim to do java development, I have a compile/build script running in one xterm, and vim in another. Syntax hightlighting, multiple buffers, etc. I bounce around with Ctrl=] tags too, and Firefox is an Alt-F3 away.
However compared with eclipse, which gets rid of annoying errors like not importing clases, cleans up unused imports, better tag matching, reverse method mapping (where is this method used etc), will highlight bad functions, will auto-complete some functions (catch (InteruptedException e) doesn't get as far as javac, it's not an IDE. Eclipse has a high learning curve, and a horrible text editor for those of use that use keyboard vi everywhere, leaves your code littered with:S. vim embedded into eclipse might be interesting, but the overhead of project management is a pain for small projects.
Ubuntu is not the ideal distribution for someone like me, and, I suspect, a lot of other people who read/.
Hmm, I moved from redhat to debian when potato came out, partly based on slashdot (and linux newbie) raves about apt, so Ubuntu is natural when I want it to just work.
As I said, that would be an upper boundry, even the most die-hard linuxite would be hard-pressed to say linux use is actually higher than this.
Google would probably be the best to get a real value, better than wikipedia -- it's large, international, and not over-represented by certain demographics like facebook.
Taco has said in the past that most slashdotters use windows/internet explorer, if he revealed that 3% of weekend use was linux, then noone would be able to argue that people are really using it.
Ubuntu and Open Office would save this country millions of dollars.
It could save most countries millions, but I assume you're talking about the U.S. Every dollar spent on Microsoft software goes to Microsoft, an American company. The money is just shifted from the tax payer to microsoft, which then pays taxes, or pays American workers. It doesn't leave the country, so you can't save millions.
Now if the UK were to switch, they'd no longer from giving the money to America, it would go to Canonical (a UK company I believe) you may have a point.
Measuring the user-agent strings of web-browsers also isn't verry precise as different sites tend to attract different kinds of users.
Google knows. Wouldn't surprise me if linux use was higher at the weekend rather than during the week, same as firefox use.
Slashdot on a Saturday/Sunday would be a good value for a realistic upper-limit on linux penetration. And no, people with fake user agents really aren't significant nowadays.
If only we could see a Sophos logo in the next Paramount endeavor, the cycle would be complete.
After having Kirk with a nokia mobile phone, and drinking Budweiser, I fully expect Uhura will be running emails from the Klingons through her Sophos package in the next film.
Your TV would have to be a monitor with no ability to tune in to a signal before you could argue exemption for TV licenses, at least in the UK
This myth is often repeated by people with various axes to grind, or those who believe them
In the UK, you only need a license to install or used for the purpose of receiving a real time televisual broadcast. That includes live (or as-live, taking into account buffering etc) TV streamed over the internet (a slingbox for example). It doesn't mean you need to license a device that theoretically can receive the signal, unless it's installed for that purpose.
Not the TV license does not cover iplayer, which is used after the broadcast, nor does it cover Radio or internet use -- you're perfectly legally fine to use non-TV BBC services without a license.
Not me. *I*'m not even sure how many ubuntu machines we have around the world, currently only half a dozen of them are outside our corporate network, so get updates directly. The rest go through an internal mirror, and use internal ntp servers, although many don't get any type of update (unless our monitoring team know about them). Those that do, many are configured to use the internal web caches, so their IP's dont show up.
Recently I've added a phone-home agent into our default build script that collects lots of data and posts it to an internal website, just so I know when someone builds a machine.
To the outside world, we have about 10 machines running ubuntu (depending on which webcache in use at the time). Internally it's closer to 60.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually in a limited scope is is possible to synthesize the speech of a real person.
Good news everyone! I'm a horse's butt!
What's this device's marketability? Who's the target consumer?
Windows 7 finally got me excited about Microsoft OSes again.
You know, I've seen this phrase pop up from a lot of people, I'm sure only some of them all shills. Your OS shouldn't be exciting, it's just a platform to launch a tool on, and those tools are increasingly more platform-agnostic.
* 2D map with status of all nodes or submaps, organized by network
That's not a "pro". My organisation isn't a network shop, and 99% of the faults we have are nothing to do with networks, either physical or virtual. More use would be a map of the building showing the max/min/average temperature in each apps room, but ultimatly I don't really care about things that are normal and working, only things that are abnormal or not working.
Access control using at least LDAP and Active Directory
Any system using a webserver should be able to do that. Most proprietary ones we've tried can't, they have their own user managment (despite running off IIS)
I appreciate that it is physically impossible for you to travel the posted speed limit. But you don't have the right to block traffic. Here in California, you are legally required to pull over if you are unable to drive the posted speed limit and there are 5 or more cars behind you.
Here in the UK the speed limit is just that, a limit for perfect conditions. Anyone blindly driving at the speed limit is showing no regard for the conditions and should be banned.
Of course, in a nose-to-tail tailback I assume that means you have to pull over, you aren't travelling at the speed limit, and there are more than 5 cars behind you.
This is true whether you're driving an antique car or a broken car or a bicycle. If you must ride so that you block traffic, do so briefly.
This is called the primary position. Responsible cyclists take this position when they can't be safely overtaken (usually at dangerous, artificial pinch points)
If you reach a stop light, let the traffic that you blocked go past you when it turns green.
Generally in Europs it's different, but we don't worship at the alter of the car. Certainly in London, you'll find the average speed of a bike outside of rush hour is about the same as that of a car. You might find a car reaches a top speed of 5 or 10mph more, but will simply spend longer waiting at lights, or behind the car in front.
In rush hour of course, theres no choice, bikes out perform cars by an order of magnitude.
Pootling around the town I live, I'm often held up by cars on the ride from home to the station, traffic isn't particularly bad either.
My pipe is fine, I can easilly saturate a gbit link pulling stuff off the web.
Sadly a journo with a bgan in Helmand isn't as lucky
I find that hard to believe (the "great basis" part -- I am sure lots of people have tried and thought they succeeded). Which of the guarantees that TCP gives you are you prepared to give up for file transfer?
The theory is that with high bandwidth, high latency, and low loss, you can do more intelligent checksumming and rate detection than TCP
(Note that you're not allowed to give up performance for other users in the network.)
That's not what our management want, and they seem to think Signiant will magically get their 30mbit video file transfering over a 256kbit uplink in realtime.
1) He's specifically advocating this for login forms on the web
Wouldn't it be nice if you could uncheck a little box that says "Obsure my password"
Forms->Show Passwords
That's with Web-Developer 1.1.6 on Firefox 3. Not exactly rocket science.
Yes, google is now evil, they're finding projects that use RFC 3514 -- the Evil Bit.
Well, the evil drill bit anyway.
Rocks are totally weapons of mass destruction.
Yes, the moon /is/ a harsh mistress
Your American cars must be crap. I've just replaced an 18 year old citreon (still on the drive), with a 12 year old nissan. The Citreon's probably got another 5 years of servicable life left, but mileage has dropped below 45mpg (needs a good service really, It's not had an oil change for 3 years, I tend to run cars into the ground.
Of course the conditions is kept/driven in make a big difference, and listening to Slashdot, the USA is made up of cities where it's -50C one day, and 40C the next. You need snow chains and AC, and every journey you guys make involves lugging 2 tons of luggage. Strange world.
There is a central area of London,
So, is that W1? Westminster? The City? Docklands?
A popular electric vehicle in London, the GWiz, is classed as a quad bike.
Never seen one, but then I only ride my bike for 50 miles a week in zone 1 and 2. If it's popular, so are segways (I've seen 2 this year)
I mean, lets be honest no one really uses OSX Server for anything really mission critical that relies on it for the kind of storage capabilities ZFS would provide. Do they? Feel free to correct me with real world usage senarios of OSX Server ( I haven't heard of much).
I guess XSans may use it. I don't know much about them to be honest, another department at work has a small one for FCP editing. Seems to me that it's the same as any old san.
given that the Linux community's refusal to support it has been an enormous thorn in its side.
Unfortunately it's incompatable with the linux kernel license (not to claim which is more free, or who's to blame). There's a fuse project, but fuse projects don't tend to go in places where zfs does.
I use vim to do java development, I have a compile/build script running in one xterm, and vim in another. Syntax hightlighting, multiple buffers, etc. I bounce around with Ctrl=] tags too, and Firefox is an Alt-F3 away.
However compared with eclipse, which gets rid of annoying errors like not importing clases, cleans up unused imports, better tag matching, reverse method mapping (where is this method used etc), will highlight bad functions, will auto-complete some functions (catch (InteruptedException e) doesn't get as far as javac, it's not an IDE. Eclipse has a high learning curve, and a horrible text editor for those of use that use keyboard vi everywhere, leaves your code littered with :S. vim embedded into eclipse might be interesting, but the overhead of project management is a pain for small projects.
Ubuntu is not the ideal distribution for someone like me, and, I suspect, a lot of other people who read /.
Hmm, I moved from redhat to debian when potato came out, partly based on slashdot (and linux newbie) raves about apt, so Ubuntu is natural when I want it to just work.
Does this effect levels of radioactivity in air of S. Korea (or Japan, China) ?
Does a test 6 miles underground affect radioactivity in the air?
Oh, 9.04 was crap and everybody knows it. At least on the Intel driver front, and that's just for starters.
They said that about 8.10, and 8.04.
As I said, that would be an upper boundry, even the most die-hard linuxite would be hard-pressed to say linux use is actually higher than this.
Google would probably be the best to get a real value, better than wikipedia -- it's large, international, and not over-represented by certain demographics like facebook.
Taco has said in the past that most slashdotters use windows/internet explorer, if he revealed that 3% of weekend use was linux, then noone would be able to argue that people are really using it.
Ubuntu and Open Office would save this country millions of dollars.
It could save most countries millions, but I assume you're talking about the U.S. Every dollar spent on Microsoft software goes to Microsoft, an American company. The money is just shifted from the tax payer to microsoft, which then pays taxes, or pays American workers. It doesn't leave the country, so you can't save millions.
Now if the UK were to switch, they'd no longer from giving the money to America, it would go to Canonical (a UK company I believe) you may have a point.
Measuring the user-agent strings of web-browsers also isn't verry precise as different sites tend to attract different kinds of users.
Google knows. Wouldn't surprise me if linux use was higher at the weekend rather than during the week, same as firefox use.
Slashdot on a Saturday/Sunday would be a good value for a realistic upper-limit on linux penetration. And no, people with fake user agents really aren't significant nowadays.
If only we could see a Sophos logo in the next Paramount endeavor, the cycle would be complete.
After having Kirk with a nokia mobile phone, and drinking Budweiser, I fully expect Uhura will be running emails from the Klingons through her Sophos package in the next film.
Firefox is able to masquerade as IE.
And IE as firefox. In both cases, only very small numbers of browsers masquerade, and are statistically insignificant.
Your TV would have to be a monitor with no ability to tune in to a signal before you could argue exemption for TV licenses, at least in the UK
This myth is often repeated by people with various axes to grind, or those who believe them
In the UK, you only need a license to install or used for the purpose of receiving a real time televisual broadcast. That includes live (or as-live, taking into account buffering etc) TV streamed over the internet (a slingbox for example). It doesn't mean you need to license a device that theoretically can receive the signal, unless it's installed for that purpose.
Not the TV license does not cover iplayer, which is used after the broadcast, nor does it cover Radio or internet use -- you're perfectly legally fine to use non-TV BBC services without a license.
Not me. *I*'m not even sure how many ubuntu machines we have around the world, currently only half a dozen of them are outside our corporate network, so get updates directly. The rest go through an internal mirror, and use internal ntp servers, although many don't get any type of update (unless our monitoring team know about them). Those that do, many are configured to use the internal web caches, so their IP's dont show up.
Recently I've added a phone-home agent into our default build script that collects lots of data and posts it to an internal website, just so I know when someone builds a machine.
To the outside world, we have about 10 machines running ubuntu (depending on which webcache in use at the time). Internally it's closer to 60.