developerWorks posted an article on this recently
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I believe it may have shown up here on./
To quote: Hardware is only as old as the software it runs: a modern operating system and up-to-date applications return an older system to productivity. This article provides best practices and step-by-step guidance on how to build a working Linux system on older hardware or on modern hardware with limited memory and storage.
I should have specified that the price of the course was not USD but AUD (Australian) dollars which is more relatively speaking that US dollars. The/. guys put that in.
We do have a community college of sorts but it's rather sporadic.
What are you planning to do with this education in Mathematics?
A multitude of reasons really. Partly for pleasure, partly for the fun lf learning, partly for work and partly for my growing interest in Astronomy. I do backends for web sites - not much call for maths in there.
But I thought a great way to learn some astronomy theory would be to program up some utility functions based on people like Meeus. It's a fair bit to bite off and it made me aware of how little I actually knew.
Ditto. I've written a class which resides in PHP's PEAR (similar to CPAN) which also does CAIDA lookups. Works really well and it additionally uses 'localizer' as well if it's installed.
My wife cares for highly disable individuals including quad, tetra- and paraplegic individuals. She's required to perform simple tasks such as toileting, showering, preparing and feeding of meals. Sounds easy? Wrong!
Other things she has to do include manual extractions (removing faeces from the bowel by hand), changing leg bags, removal and fitting of tampons, and insertion of catheters.
One of the problems with profoundly disabled people is that having someone do all this stuff while you're so powerless can be a source of shame. Additionally, newly disabled people can have personality problems - this is usually a male thing because their penis's do not function correctly so they usually verbalize their aggression. Quadraplegics are usually living on borrowed time mainly die to kidney failure.
So she doesn't only have to be competent to do all the physical work, but she also has to be acutely aware of the mental needs of the patient so they don't feed shame or embarresment or anything else negative.
Think about it for a second. Could you keep someones mind off what was going on while you were inserting a tube in their penis?
So don't think it's a 'hot' job. It's a job that requires knowledge, skill, and above all - compassion.
The offical 'home' of polyglot is http://ideology.com.au/polyglot/. One of the authors was until recently my boss. While you're there have a good laugh and Corporate Hoore and Geocaching.
Spend any length of time on the P3P mailing list and you'll notice that most questions revolve around using 3rd party cookies. This is where iE6 spends most of it's time rejecting cookies. By default IE6 is set to reject cookies from 3rd party sites which includes many ad serving companies. Deciding how to set up your P3P to fit with this can be problematic.
First off, you must decide who does what and how. Is the ad serving company acting as an agent for you? If so, then the should be able to be covered by your own P3P policy. IIRC the relates to the ad company only if they are there to serve banners and that's it. Not ad company does that. They gather every little morsel they can. Which means they have to serve their own P3P policy as well as you serving your own.
Now doubleclick have got it right. They server a P3P header for their ads s everyone is happy. Where I used to work, the ad serving company wanted to do all sorts of whacky crap which basically involved us having to jump through hoops for them. This was a big outfit and they obviously didn't get it.
IMHO many sites don't need P3P just yet because the functionality offered in the draft just isn't in the user agents yet. When they are then I think people will start to use it but it does depend on the honor system somewhat. Some companies do offer 'auditing' though to get round this.
Work with your ad serving company if their cookies etc are being blocked. Often it's up to them to do the P3P stuff but make sure you do your research as well so they don't snow you.
It's not hard to create one. A good read of the implmentation guide will go a long way, plus the IBM P3P editor is great. You can grab it from here
I'm in the same boat as you but slightly further along. I'd always been bleating to my wife about wanting to get into Astronomy so she went out and got me a telescope as a gift. It's only a 60mm Refractor but it does have a decent equatorial mount and eyepieces although I can always buy others since it came with the standard size.
After checking out all the abvious ones like the Moon, Jupiter and Saturn (now *there's* a buzz) and generally impressing my family I started doing a bit more reading. As pointed out earlier it's no good looking at stuff close-up if you don't know a little more about the big picture. Kind of a "forest for the trees" thing but it's a pretty damn big forest:). So I got a planisphere and a start chart and sat out and learned where stuff was generally and how to find it. Stuff like using Orion to find Procyon and Canopus or using other markers as guides. Just sitting out under the stars and seeing how the sky fits together is as fun as seeing Saturn for the first time.
Don't forget you can also look for other things like satellites and Iridium flares which I've just learnt about.
I've having a look at some of the maths as well. Like how to calculate sunrise/sunset times etc. It's fascinating to see how it all fits together and it's damn cool to plug in a few values and calculate sunset time and then 'Hey presto!' the sun sets at that time. Maths on a real and big scale.
There's oodles of software. Some of the more esoteric stuff like Iridium flares uses some wacky software but some of the general software is great. I can't attest to the X software but an excellent Windows (/me ducks) product is Starry Night from http://www.starrynight.com/. The backyard version has some cool features and isn't so light that you'll outgrow is quickly.
Anyway, have a blast and may your skies always be clear.
Sometimes mucking about with the phonetics gives a measure of success. I've registered phuqed.com without any trouble.
Additionally, in New Zealand, any.co.nz domain can be registered including 'the big six' which went very quickly. The reasoning was that since New Zealand is a bi-cultural language country (English and Maori) that there was no system so prevent you registering a rude word in Maori ('cooked head' is an example) so instead of regulating more, they lifted all restrictions.
While the case study chapter may not be interesting to most, the last chapter on extending the Zend engine should be a must read for anyone wanting to add their own functions.
It has the blessing of the Zend team as 'the' resource for extending Zend and that chapter is also published under the Open Content License meaning it can be distributed outside of the book just like any other piece of open source software. Observant readers will note the inclusion of the open source license at the rear of the book.
As for PHP resources, as someone pointed out, the PHP documentation is pretty damn fine and is available via CVS as sometimes the web version lags behind.
PHPBuilder.com, Zend.com, FAQTS and Weberdev amongst others all have plenty of applications, tips and tutorials.
To me there seems to be a perennial problem with mysql vs pgsql. If Great Bridge skewed the benchmarks in favour of pgsql, then fine, but a criticism of the mysql benchmarks is that they are skewed towards mysql. Funny that.
Is there, or how you do you go about writing, an *independent* set of benchmarks.
The pgsql, mysql ppl sure do come out of the woodwork when something like this happens, but I've yet to see a truly *independent* benchmark happen. Speaking of which - is there such a thing as an independent benchmark for anything? hmm Bogomips maybe?
Anyway, if there was a standard benchmark to run against both DB's from a vanilla install (and by that I mean running './configure' with no flags) then I think that would go a long way towards giving a more balanced view.
I certainly got my start on MySQL as did most others I guess. Truth be told, I got my real Unix DB start using mSQL but that's another story. MySQL for many people is a great start. The reason there are so many MySQL installs out there is because it's just so darn easy rto get started with. I should no, I wrote a tutori al for it. The install is simple, accessing it is simple, and the SQL and data type are enough to get you off and running pretty easily. Postgres on the other hand is, for the novice, more difficult to install. While both DB's have an odd user auth system, postgres' is just that little bit more odd for the new user.
Having said all that, postgres I think is the best introduction for the user wanting more than MySQL but not ready for the commercial DB's. As alreqady pointed out, it has (finally) foreign key support, sequences, transactions, sub-selects and so on. I've found using views has been amazingly handy coming from MySQL. I can take a very complex join and tidy the whole thing up into a view. One criticism is that outer joins aren't implemented and you have to have something together using a UNION. The other handy feature I like in postgres are the functions. Again they're not easy to get started in but you've got a choice of the language you want to write the thing in including C and tcl as well as pl/sql. Finally my other joy with postgres is large object support. There are innumerable postings to mailing lists about how to store images and other binary data in MySQL. The usual reponse is to not do it and to merely store the path to the file. The lo_import and lo_export functions in postgres are simple and easy to use and accessing them via PHP is a snap.
While it's a commercial product, Trapeze from Onstream Systems may be a goob idea.. Basically it uses funky document handling gizmos to scan and process paper based content. A system has recently been devised to turn a very marge chunk or Irelands Marriage and death records (and I think birth records) into a searchable, electronic dodcument system. As far as I know, they also do OCR as well. All together, it's pretty darn cool. And no, I don't work for them:)
As already pointed out, Freetrade in an excellent package. FishCart is a second (http://www.fishcart.org) and there are a few more minor ones you'll find floating about on Freshmeat. Amongst other things, there's a project floating about to move OpenMerchant to PHP. The homepage is here.
I can't say I've used it myself. I was looking at the prometheus library for PHP and found this along the way. Might be a good place to start though. http://prometheus.zerodivide.net/my sql_cluster/
Just got the email from RedHat. Here's some features of what's new. PIGLET includes the following new features: - A new and improved Anaconda [tm] installer - Partitionless installs - Improved X Configuration - Additional GUI Partitioning tool - Software RAID Configuration in Kickstart Installations - RAID upgrades - ATAPI Zip and Jaz Drive Recognition - Rescue Disk Improvements - It works! - Rescue via the installation CD - Pico on rescue disk - mtools on rescue disk - Kernel 2.2.15 - Enhanced Software RAID - P III Enhancements - New web based High Availability Configuration Utility - Kerberos Integration - New Window Managers - New desktop backgrounds and themes - Docbook tools - Standard Samba mounts in/etc/fstab - Smaller minimal install - Separate client/server packages for servers:
I don't think there is anything out there to plug into Access from Linux, but you can certainly export from Access into MySQL. Either use MyODBC as someone pointed out or you can use a script available here to dump an Access DB into nicely formatted MySQL compatible SQL. There are a couple of these utilities available on the MySQL web site.
I don't get it. LinuxLite uses (crappy?) UMSDOS and all that. It's not new as far as I know. What do all the other Windows/Linux distros use that make this so special. There PhatLinux, WinLinux 2000, Armed Linux and a coupla others besides. So LinuxLite is a wee way down the list.
Speaking of PhatLinux, don't be too quick to dismiss it. Last time I looked it was number 1 over at download.com's linux section.
This idea has got pretty big in New Zealand. What started out as a bunch of enthusiasts coming into a school and having a crack at networking the whole place in one day has now attracted big names and bigger money. When Net Day roles around now, it happens at a whole bunch of school and you have to apply etc. For more info check http://www.netday.net.nz/. Apparently it started in the US...
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I believe it may have shown up here on ./
To quote:
Hardware is only as old as the software it runs: a modern operating system and up-to-date applications return an older system to productivity. This article provides best practices and step-by-step guidance on how to build a working Linux system on older hardware or on modern hardware with limited memory and storage.
Check in out here.
I should have specified that the price of the course was not USD but AUD (Australian) dollars which is more relatively speaking that US dollars. The /. guys put that in.
We do have a community college of sorts but it's rather sporadic.
A multitude of reasons really. Partly for pleasure, partly for the fun lf learning, partly for work and partly for my growing interest in Astronomy. I do backends for web sites - not much call for maths in there. But I thought a great way to learn some astronomy theory would be to program up some utility functions based on people like Meeus. It's a fair bit to bite off and it made me aware of how little I actually knew.
Ditto. I've written a class which resides in PHP's PEAR (similar to CPAN) which also does CAIDA lookups.
Works really well and it additionally uses 'localizer' as well if it's installed.
G
My wife cares for highly disable individuals including quad, tetra- and paraplegic individuals.
She's required to perform simple tasks such as toileting, showering, preparing and feeding of meals. Sounds easy? Wrong!
Other things she has to do include manual extractions (removing faeces from the bowel by hand), changing leg bags, removal and fitting of tampons, and insertion of catheters.
One of the problems with profoundly disabled people is that having someone do all this stuff while you're so powerless can be a source of shame. Additionally, newly disabled people can have personality problems - this is usually a male thing because their penis's do not function correctly so they usually verbalize their aggression. Quadraplegics are usually living on borrowed time mainly die to kidney failure.
So she doesn't only have to be competent to do all the physical work, but she also has to be acutely aware of the mental needs of the patient so they don't feed shame or embarresment or anything else negative.
Think about it for a second. Could you keep someones mind off what was going on while you were inserting a tube in their penis?
So don't think it's a 'hot' job. It's a job that requires knowledge, skill, and above all - compassion.
The offical 'home' of polyglot is http://ideology.com.au/polyglot/.
One of the authors was until recently my boss. While you're there have a good laugh and Corporate Hoore and Geocaching.
BTW: polyglot has been mentioned here before.
We have the same thing. FTP out - SFTP/SCP in.
The best program I've found which also happens to be free is winSCP available from here.
Various cool options including a choice of two interfaces - Explorer or MC and its codebase is based on putty.
You can also use keys but that's SSH1 only at this stage.
Screen shots here
Spend any length of time on the P3P mailing list and you'll notice that most questions revolve around using 3rd party cookies. This is where iE6 spends most of it's time rejecting cookies.
By default IE6 is set to reject cookies from 3rd party sites which includes many ad serving companies. Deciding how to set up your P3P to fit with this can be problematic.
First off, you must decide who does what and how. Is the ad serving company acting as an agent for you? If so, then the should be able to be covered by your own P3P policy. IIRC the relates to the ad company only if they are there to serve banners and that's it.
Not ad company does that. They gather every little morsel they can. Which means they have to serve their own P3P policy as well as you serving your own.
Now doubleclick have got it right. They server a P3P header for their ads s everyone is happy. Where I used to work, the ad serving company wanted to do all sorts of whacky crap which basically involved us having to jump through hoops for them. This was a big outfit and they obviously didn't get it.
IMHO many sites don't need P3P just yet because the functionality offered in the draft just isn't in the user agents yet. When they are then I think people will start to use it but it does depend on the honor system somewhat. Some companies do offer 'auditing' though to get round this.
Work with your ad serving company if their cookies etc are being blocked. Often it's up to them to do the P3P stuff but make sure you do your research as well so they don't snow you.
It's not hard to create one. A good read of the implmentation guide will go a long way, plus the IBM P3P editor is great. You can grab it from here
I'm in the same boat as you but slightly further along. I'd always been bleating to my wife about wanting to get into Astronomy so she went out and got me a telescope as a gift. It's only a 60mm Refractor but it does have a decent equatorial mount and eyepieces although I can always buy others since it came with the standard size.
:). So I got a planisphere and a start chart and sat out and learned where stuff was generally and how to find it. Stuff like using Orion to find Procyon and Canopus or using other markers as guides. Just sitting out under the stars and seeing how the sky fits together is as fun as seeing Saturn for the first time.
After checking out all the abvious ones like the Moon, Jupiter and Saturn (now *there's* a buzz) and generally impressing my family I started doing a bit more reading. As pointed out earlier it's no good looking at stuff close-up if you don't know a little more about the big picture. Kind of a "forest for the trees" thing but it's a pretty damn big forest
Don't forget you can also look for other things like satellites and Iridium flares which I've just learnt about.
I've having a look at some of the maths as well. Like how to calculate sunrise/sunset times etc. It's fascinating to see how it all fits together and it's damn cool to plug in a few values and calculate sunset time and then 'Hey presto!' the sun sets at that time. Maths on a real and big scale.
There's oodles of software. Some of the more esoteric stuff like Iridium flares uses some wacky software but some of the general software is great. I can't attest to the X software but an excellent Windows (/me ducks) product is Starry Night from http://www.starrynight.com/. The backyard version has some cool features and isn't so light that you'll outgrow is quickly.
Anyway, have a blast and may your skies always be clear.
The paper and more can be found here
Sometimes mucking about with the phonetics gives a measure of success. I've registered phuqed.com without any trouble. .co.nz domain can be registered including 'the big six' which went very quickly. The reasoning was that since New Zealand is a bi-cultural language country (English and Maori) that there was no system so prevent you registering a rude word in Maori ('cooked head' is an example) so instead of regulating more, they lifted all restrictions.
Additionally, in New Zealand, any
Graeme
While the case study chapter may not be interesting to most, the last chapter on extending the Zend engine should be a must read for anyone wanting to add their own functions.
It has the blessing of the Zend team as 'the' resource for extending Zend and that chapter is also published under the Open Content License meaning it can be distributed outside of the book just like any other piece of open source software. Observant readers will note the inclusion of the open source license at the rear of the book.
As for PHP resources, as someone pointed out, the PHP documentation is pretty damn fine and is available via CVS as sometimes the web version lags behind.
PHPBuilder.com, Zend.com, FAQTS and Weberdev amongst others all have plenty of applications, tips and tutorials.
Graeme
To me there seems to be a perennial problem with mysql vs pgsql. If Great Bridge skewed the benchmarks in favour of pgsql, then fine, but a criticism of the mysql benchmarks is that they are skewed towards mysql. Funny that.
Is there, or how you do you go about writing, an *independent* set of benchmarks.
The pgsql, mysql ppl sure do come out of the woodwork when something like this happens, but I've yet to see a truly *independent* benchmark happen. Speaking of which - is there such a thing as an independent benchmark for anything? hmm Bogomips maybe?
Anyway, if there was a standard benchmark to run against both DB's from a vanilla install (and by that I mean running './configure' with no flags) then I think that would go a long way towards giving a more balanced view.
G
I certainly got my start on MySQL as did most others I guess. Truth be told, I got my real Unix DB start using mSQL but that's another story.
MySQL for many people is a great start. The reason there are so many MySQL installs out there is because it's just so darn easy rto get started with. I should no, I wrote a tutori al for it. The install is simple, accessing it is simple, and the SQL and data type are enough to get you off and running pretty easily.
Postgres on the other hand is, for the novice, more difficult to install.
While both DB's have an odd user auth system, postgres' is just that little bit more odd for the new user.
Having said all that, postgres I think is the best introduction for the user wanting more than MySQL but not ready for the commercial DB's. As alreqady pointed out, it has (finally) foreign key support, sequences, transactions, sub-selects and so on. I've found using views has been amazingly handy coming from MySQL. I can take a very complex join and tidy the whole thing up into a view. One criticism is that outer joins aren't implemented and you have to have something together using a UNION.
The other handy feature I like in postgres are the functions. Again they're not easy to get started in but you've got a choice of the language you want to write the thing in including C and tcl as well as pl/sql.
Finally my other joy with postgres is large object support. There are innumerable postings to mailing lists about how to store images and other binary data in MySQL. The usual reponse is to not do it and to merely store the path to the file. The lo_import and lo_export functions in postgres are simple and easy to use and accessing them via PHP is a snap.
Cheers,
Graeme
While it's a commercial product, Trapeze from Onstream Systems may be a goob idea.. Basically it uses funky document handling gizmos to scan and process paper based content. A system has recently been devised to turn a very marge chunk or Irelands Marriage and death records (and I think birth records) into a searchable, electronic dodcument system. :)
As far as I know, they also do OCR as well. All together, it's pretty darn cool. And no, I don't work for them
Cheers,
Graeme
As already pointed out, Freetrade in an excellent package. FishCart is a second (http://www.fishcart.org) and there are a few more minor ones you'll find floating about on Freshmeat.
Amongst other things, there's a project floating about to move OpenMerchant to PHP. The homepage is here.
Cheers,
Graeme
I can't say I've used it myself. I was looking at the prometheus library for PHP and found this along the way. Might be a good place to start though.
http://prometheus.zerodivide.net/my sql_cluster/
Just got the email from RedHat. Here's some features of what's new. /etc/fstab
PIGLET includes the following new features:
- A new and improved Anaconda [tm] installer
- Partitionless installs
- Improved X Configuration
- Additional GUI Partitioning tool
- Software RAID Configuration in Kickstart Installations
- RAID upgrades
- ATAPI Zip and Jaz Drive Recognition
- Rescue Disk Improvements
- It works!
- Rescue via the installation CD
- Pico on rescue disk
- mtools on rescue disk
- Kernel 2.2.15
- Enhanced Software RAID
- P III Enhancements
- New web based High Availability Configuration Utility
- Kerberos Integration
- New Window Managers
- New desktop backgrounds and themes
- Docbook tools
- Standard Samba mounts in
- Smaller minimal install
- Separate client/server packages for servers:
I don't think there is anything out there to plug into Access from Linux, but you can certainly export from Access into MySQL.
Either use MyODBC as someone pointed out or you can use a script available here to dump an Access DB into nicely formatted MySQL compatible SQL.
There are a couple of these utilities available on the MySQL web site.
I don't get it. LinuxLite uses (crappy?) UMSDOS and all that. It's not new as far as I know. What do all the other Windows/Linux distros use that make this so special.
There PhatLinux, WinLinux 2000, Armed Linux and a coupla others besides. So LinuxLite is a wee way down the list.
Speaking of PhatLinux, don't be too quick to dismiss it. Last time I looked it was number 1 over at download.com's linux section.
This idea has got pretty big in New Zealand. What started out as a bunch of enthusiasts coming into a school and having a crack at networking the whole place in one day has now attracted big names and bigger money. When Net Day roles around now, it happens at a whole bunch of school and you have to apply etc. For more info check http://www.netday.net.nz/. Apparently it started in the US...